12 Dec 2003

New Caledonian police make record drug seizure

3:28 pm on 12 December 2003

New Caledonian police have found 4300 cannabis plants in the territory's biggest seizure ever.

Backed by 25 soldiers, they seized 1700 kilos of cannabis plants in a secret plantation in Nakety.

Two people suspected of planting the crop are now wanted by police.

The Nouvelles Caledoniennes says the drugs, which have a street value of about 300-thousand US dollars, were mostly burned by police in Canala.

Some of the cannabis was kept as evidence.