South­ern Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers have de­stroyed 1600 cannabis trees and sev­er­al seedlings, with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of 1.6 mil­lion dol­lars, dur­ing a drug erad­i­ca­tion ex­er­cise in the Moru­ga Dis­trict, on Fri­day.

The of­fi­cers, based on in­tel­li­gence in­for­ma­tion, pro­ceed­ed to La Lune For­est, Moru­ga, where two fields oc­cu­py­ing ap­prox­i­mate­ly three lots of land con­tain­ing ap­prox­i­mate­ly 1600 ful­ly grown Cannabis trees and sev­er­al seedlings, were lo­cat­ed and de­stroyed.

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise, sev­er­al known of­fend­ers and drug blocks were tar­get­ed, re­sult­ing in the ar­rest of three per­sons; a 66-year-old male, of Dal­las Street, Co­coyea for pos­ses­sion of co­caine, weigh­ing one gram, a 61-year-old of Na­pari­ma Ma­yaro Road, Co­coyea for pos­ses­sion of co­caine which weighed one gram and a 63-year-old male, of Em­ba­cadre, San Fer­nan­do, for pos­ses­sion of co­caine, al­so weigh­ing one gram.