PNP, PDEA destroy P25-M marijuana in Kalinga, Benguet

January 29, 2023, 6:58 pm

<p>Philippine National Police chief Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr. <em>(Photo courtesy of PNP)</em></p>

Philippine National Police chief Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr. (Photo courtesy of PNP)

MANILA – Philippine National Police-Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PNP-PDEA) personnel raided clandestine cannabis farm sites during their recent three-day joint eradication operations in mountainous areas of Benguet and Kalinga and destroyed some 106,140 fully grown marijuana plants.

Reports reaching PNP chief, Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr. at Camp Crame from Brig. Gen. Mafelino Aspero Bazar, Police Regional Office-Cordillera regional director, said on Jan. 24-25, operatives uprooted and burned on-site 26,000 fully grown marijuana plants with an estimated standard drug price (SDP) of PHP7 million on 2,600 square meters of land in Brgy. Loccong, Tinglayan, Kalinga.

On Jan. 26, some 65,000 fully grown marijuana plants with an estimated SDP of PHP14.8 million were burned by authorities in a land area of around 9,000 square meters in the same village.

In an operation on Jan. 25-26, authorities destroyed in Chumanchil also in Barangay Loccong of Tinglayan town 10,000 fully grown marijuana plants with an estimated SDP of PHP2 million on 1,000 square meters of land.

On Jan. 26, personnel of Kibungan Municipal Police Station, Benguet Police Provincial Office and PDEA-Cordillera destroyed 2,800 fully grown marijuana with an estimated SDP of PHP560,000 on two sites covering a land area of around 350 square meters in Sitio Bacbacan, Poblacion, Kibungan, Benguet.

Another three kilograms of dried marijuana stalks with an estimated SDP of PHP360,000 were burned on site.

On the other hand, another operation was launched on Jan. 25, where a total of 2,340 fully grown marijuana plants with an estimated SDP of PHP468,000 on four sites with a land area of around 330 square meters were destroyed along with the two kilograms of dried marijuana stalks with an estimated SDP of PHP240,000.

Reports said, however, no cultivators were arrested during the operations.

“I commend the collaboration of PROCOR (Police Regional Office-Cordillera), drug enforcement units under the leadership PBGen Mafelino Aspero Bazar and those other units as well as the PDEA agents for always being on top of the situation to stop drug proliferation as part of our continuous effort to clear the drug affectation areas in Cordillera region and other parts of the country,” Azurin said in a statement on Saturday. (PNA)

 

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