Ranks from the Guyana Police Force’s Narcotics Branch, in collaboration with ranks from Regional Police Division Six, conducted another successful ‘Joint Narcotics Eradication Exercise’ on Wednesday at Kuyorokuri Creek, Upper Berbice River, during which more than $1B worth of cannabis was found and destroyed.
During the operation, ranks found an open savannah with six cannabis farms on a total acreage of 21 acres of land.
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.
𝑽𝑨𝑳𝑼𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵 𝑶𝑭 𝑵𝑨𝑹𝑪𝑶𝑻𝑰𝑪𝑺 𝑫𝑬𝑺𝑻𝑹𝑶𝒀𝑬𝑫:
𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬: $𝟑𝟗,𝟗𝟕𝟖,𝟒𝟎𝟎
𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐬:$𝟏,𝟎𝟐𝟎,𝟓𝟖𝟐,𝟎𝟎𝟎
𝐓𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞: $𝟏,𝟎𝟔𝟎,𝟓𝟔𝟎,𝟒𝟎𝟎
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