THE Police Narcotics Branch and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) yesterday in the Soesdyke/Linden Millie’s Hideout area discovered about 12 acres of marijuana plants, a .22 Taurus revolver and three shotgun cartridges and a cell phone during a drug eradication operation. 

According to a press release, the joint operation was conducted yesterday with the aid of an helicopter in the Millie’s Hideout area along the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.
The field under marijuana cultivation had about 80,000 plants, some as high as 11 feet. The fields of marijuana plants along with two abandoned camps were destroyed.
Earlier, a motor vehicle was searched along a trail and 550 grams of marijuana were found and four men have been arrested and are in police custody while the vehicle was detained.