P1.5-M worth of weed torched

SOME P1.57 million worth of marijuana plants were eradicated in the Province of Benguet on December 7 and 8, as part the Police Regional Office – Cordillera’s ( PRO – COR) continuous campaign against illegal drugs.

On December 7, two marijuana eradication operations were separately conducted in Bakun and Kibungan, Benguet.

Authorities uprooted 2,400 pieces of fully grown marijuana plants cultivated in a public lot with an estimated land area of 600 square meters with an estimated Standard Drug Price ( SDP) of P480,000 in Sitio Gilgil, Barangay Kayapa in Bakun.

In Kibungan, some 4,250 pieces fully

grown marijuana plants worth P850,000 were discovered in Sitio Alingaw and Sitio Naboy-o,Barangay Poblacion with an estimated land area of 850 square meters.

On December 8, another marijuana eradication operation was conducted in Sitio Baoedan in Kayapa with 1,200 pieces fully grown marijuana plant cultivated in a 200 square meters land having an estimated street value of P240,000.

Since December 1, PRO – COR uprooted 7,892 pieces of fully grown marijuana plants and 597 pieces of marijuana seedlings worth P1,602,280.

In Baguio City, a drug pusher was arrested during a buybust operation in Dagohoy Street, Barangay Kagitingan.

Mike Maqui Jimenez ‘ aka’ Mike Kevin Ramos, 26, and a resident at T. Alonzo St., was apprehended by the Baguio City Police Office (BCPO) Station 7 headed by Police Major Marlo Evasco, BCPO Drug Enforcement Unit and the Criminal Intelligence Unit (CIU) December 10.

Confiscated during the operation are three sachets of shabu weighing close to five grams worth P3,400 and the buy-bust money.