P17M illegal weed destroyed in Kalinga
COMBINED operatives and anti-narcotics agents in the Cordillera uprooted and destroyed a total of 860,000 fully grown marijuana plants, and seedlings worth 17.4million in Tinglayan, Kalinga during a 3- day operation during the weekend.
Joint personnel of Kalinga Provincial Police Office, Regional Maneuver Force Battalion (RMFB 15), and members of the Philippine Druge enforcement Agency – Cordillera implemented Oplan Five Fingers Saga in Barangays Buscalan and Loccong.
During the operation, authorities discovered 15 marijuana plantation sites and were able to uproot 847,000 fully grown marijuana plants and 13,000 marijuana seedlings with a total Dangerous Drug board value of P17,480,000.
The operating teams are continuously sighting for more possible marijuana plantations in the most remote communities in the province to discourage cultivators from planting marijuana.
Chief Superintendent Edward Carranza, regional director of Police Regional Office - Cordillera said validation is being conducted to identify the cultivators and file charges against
them in court.
Caranza added the operation is in consonance with the President’s order to all law enforcement agencies which is to sustain their fight against criminality, corruption and illegal drugs.
“We will not stop until the last marijuana cultivator, the last financier, and the last pusher will be arrested, surrendered or put behind bars,” Carranza added.