Members of the Joint Services yesterday destroyed three large ganja farms along the Ebini Trail, Upper Berbice River.
A release from the police force said that a party of policemen from Regional Division # 6 along with the Police Narcotic Branch (Georgetown), Coast Guard and the Guyana Defence Force conducted operations in the Berbice River on 2022-11-26 following reports of cattle rustling by a farmer of Kimbia Village, Upper Berbice River.
As the team went in pursuit of the perpetrators, the release said that they came across three suspected cannabis farms measuring about eight acres along the Ebini Trail with about thirty seven thousand suspected plants ranging from three to seven feet in height weighing approximately 4000 pounds. Three makeshift camps with four hundred pounds of dried cannabis, along with one tiller and several pieces of farming equipment were seen. The estimated cost of the suspected cannabis is $585,134,100.
At one of the camps, components of a suspected firearm were also found and have been lodged.
All the cannabis plants and camps were destroyed by fire, the police said.
