GEORGETOWN – Police say they have seized guns, ammunition as well as a small wooden boat after conducting a marijuana eradication exercise at three areas in the Upper Berbice River.
A statement by the Guyana Police Force said that no one had been arrested in connection with the seizure and that during the four-day exercise they used a drone to identify a six-acre farm that was already prepared for planting marijuana.
The police said that they destroyed four nursery beds with about 5 000 cannabis seedlings, 64 pounds of dried cannabis, and three other acres of marijuana plants as high as six feet. Thirty of the 64 pounds of cannabis were found in an abandoned church.
Police estimate the street value of the marijuana at just over five million dollars (One Guyana dollar=US$0.004 cents).
They said that they seized a 12-gauge double-barrel shotgun, one .32 pistol with an empty magazine, three 20-gauge shotgun cartridges, two cellular phones, one 15 horsepower outboard engine, and one 50 horsepower outboard engine and a wooden boat. As well as a chainsaw and that other material at the sites were destroyed by fire. (CMC)
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