BONTOC, Mountain Province – More than P73 million worth of marijuana were destroyed by combined police operatives and anti-narcotics agents during separate marijuana eradication operations in Mountain Province and Benguet recently.
In the Province, approximately 500 kilograms of dried marijuana leaves with a Standard Drug Price (SDP) of P60,000,000.00 and 62,500 pieces of Fully Grown Marijuana Plants (FGMJP) with an SDP of P12,500,000.00 were discovered by the joint operatives of Sadanga Municipal Police Station (MPS), Provincial Intelligence Unit (PIU) and Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit (PDEU) of Mountain Province Police Provincial Office (PPO), 2nd Mountain Province Provincial Mobile Force Company, Regional Intelligence Unit-14, and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-CAR in a communal forest in Brgy. Saclit, Sadanga.
Meanwhile, in Benguet, 2,600 pieces of FGMJP with an overall SDP of P520,000.00 were discovered by the joint operatives of Bakun MPS, Kibungan MPS, PIU and PDEU of Benguet PPO, Regional Intelligence Division, and PDEA-CAR, from marijuana plantation sites found in barangay Kayapa, Bakun, and Barangay Tacadang, Kibungan.
After proper documentation, all the discovered marijuana plants were burned on-site, with sufficient samples taken for submission to the Regional Forensic Unit-CAR. Meanwhile, operatives are conducting intensive investigations to identify cultivators and are continuing to search nearby areas for other marijuana plantation sites. By Dexter A. See
