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TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Eight suspects, including two Taiwanese and six undocumented Indonesian migrant workers, have been indicted after police carried out the largest marijuana plant seizure in Taiwan’s history.


At a press conference on Thursday (Nov. 17), the Longtan Precinct of the Taoyuan Police Department said it had conducted a raid on a marijuana field on a farm near the Army’s 601st Aviation Brigade on Sept. 20, reported ETtoday. Officers seized 4,218 marijuana plants with a street value of more than NT$1.26 billion (US$40.5 million), making it Taiwan’s largest ever cannabis plant seizure.


2 Taiwanese, 6 Indonesians indicted for largest marijuana seizure in Taiwan's history

(Taoyuan Police Department photo)


According to Longtan Precinct, the main suspect, a man surnamed Wu (吳) who is a known gang member, used his experience of importing and exporting flowers and operating a gardening business to acquire marijuana seeds. He then taught himself via internet research how to grow cannabis plants.


His male Taiwanese accomplice surnamed Ke (柯) and six unaccounted for female Indonesian migrant workers took part in the cultivation process. They selected an isolated stretch of farmland that covered nearly 900 ping (a ping equals 3.3 square meters) — the equivalent of about seven…

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