MARIJUANA HAUL. Members of the Lanao del Sur police office set on fire marijuana plants seized by operatives in the hinterlands of Tugaya town in Lanao del Sur province on Tuesday (July 5, 2022). The marijuana plants have an estimated market value of PHP800,000. (Photo courtesy of Lanao Sur PPO)
COTABATO CITY – Some 3,000 marijuana plants were uprooted following a raid at a clandestine plantation in the Lanao del Sur town of Tugaya, police said Wednesday.
Colonel Jibin Bongcayao, Lanao del Sur police director, said no cultivator was arrested during the Tuesday afternoon raid on the marijuana plantation discovered in Barangay Bago-a-Ingud, Tugaya.
Backed by soldiers, police raided the plantation after residents confirmed the existence of the plantation that are camouflaged by other huge plants in the middle of the vast farmland.
“Due to huge volume, police set ablaze some of the plants and brought down a few to be used as evidence in filing cases against the cultivators,” Bongcayao said.
He said the seized marijuana stuff has an estimated street value of PHP800,000.
Brigadier Gen. Arthur Cabalona, police director for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM, urged the public to continue providing the police with valuable information against illegal activities in the locality. (PNA)
