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DEA destroys marijuana farms in Bong county |
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Written by Clarence Jackson
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
The Drug Enforcement Agency in Bong County has destroyed five marijuana farms in the Duta area in Kpaii District.
According to the Officer-in-Charge of the Bong County DEA, the farms were destroyed Monday during an operation co-named Operation Stop Cultivation.
Col. Alphonso Rancy said the operation was carried out in collaboration with the Liberia National Police.
Other security units that aided the DEA operation are the Nigerian Formed Police, UNPOL and the Bangladeshi contingent of UNMIL.
Col. Rancy told our correspondent; more than three hundred trees were destroyed during the operation.
He said eight suspects were picked up in the operation with more than ninety-two kilograms of marijuana seized.
The value of the drug is put at more than one hundred thousand Liberian dollars.
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