Police uproot and seize 3344 marijuana plants

Officers from the Drug Unit at the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force uprooted a total of Three thousand three hundred and forty four (3,344) marijuana plants ranging from seedlings to ten (10) feet in height.

According to reports the plants were uprooted from fifteen (15) connecting opened areas in the Conaree Mountain.

Nine hundred and seventy three (973) plants ranging one foot to ten feet in height came from three (3) patches. One thousand four hundred and seventy nine (1479) plants came from three (3) patches, ranging one foot to seven feet in height. Two hundred and sixty four (264) plants came from five (5) patches, ranging from seedling to four feet in height.

Fifty six (56) plants came from one patch, ranging from seeding to two feet. Seventy one (71) plants came from two patches, ranging from seeding to two feet. Five hundred (500) seedlings came from one patch.

No one has been arrested for the find.

Investigations are ongoing.