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Cops destroy more than $1B worth of ganja
(Kaieteur News) – Ranks from the Guyana Police Force’s Narcotics Branch, in collaboration with ranks from Regional Police Division #6, conducted another successful ‘Joint Narcotics Eradication Exercise’ on Wednesday at Kuyorokuri Creek, Upper Berbice River, during which more than $1B worth (street value) of Cannabis was found and destroyed.
During the operation, ranks found an open savannah with six Cannabis farms on a total acreage of twenty-one (21) acres. In a press release police said the farms contained a combined total of approximately 118,000 Cannabis plants ranging from two (2) to seven (7) feet in height. Eight camps and ten drying areas were also discovered, which contained a combined total of 2,500 lbs of dried Cannabis. The farms contained the following machinery/equipment:
** One (1) tractor
** Seven (7) tilling machines
** One (1) chainsaw
** Two (2) generators
** Six (6) weeding machines
** Three (3) mistblowers
** Sixteen (16) spray cans
** Nine (9) water pumps
The cannabis plants, dried cannabis, camps, and drying areas were destroyed by fire. The exercise was incident-free.
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