1 arrested after CANU unearths ganja farm in St Cuthbert’s Mission
Ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) on Saturday arrested one person following a drug eradication exercise at St Cuthbert’s Mission on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway.
The makeshift camp discovered by CANU ranks at St Cuthbert’s Mission
According to information received, CANU ranks, acting on intelligence, converged on a farm in the community, where they discovered a makeshift camp and extensive cultivation of cannabis plants.
The anti-narcotics officers conducted a seizure-an- eradication exercise during which approximately 15.4 kilograms of dried cannabis plants was seized while some 1500 plants of an estimated height of three feet and total weight of 52.9 kilograms (275) pounds were destroyed.
A section of the cannabis farm unearthed by the Customs Anti- Narcotics Unit (CANU)
The suspect found at the farm at the time was taken into custody and was assisting with the investigations. He is expected to make his court appearance later in the week.
