3 CANNABIS FARMS DISCOVERED IN MT. PROVINCE-KALINGA BOUNDARY; P2M WORTH OF MARIJUANA BURNED

CAMP MAJOR BADO DANGWA, La Trinidad, Benguet – (June 16, 2021) – PROCOR cops destroyed some 5,250 pieces of fully-grown Marijuana Plants and 8,500 grams of leaves & stalks with a total Standard Drug Price (SDP) of Php2,020,000.00 along the boundary of Barangay Saclit, Sadanga, Mt Province and Brgy. Buscalan, Kalinga in the afternoon of June 15, 2021.

Based on reports submitted to the Regional Director, PBGEN RONALD OLIVER LEE, the Marijuana eradication was launched by joint opetratives of the Provincial Intelligence Unit – Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit (PIU/PDEU); Mt Province PPO; PDEA Mountain Province; Regional Intelligence Division Cordillera (RID-COR); Provincial Investigation and Detection Management Unit (PIDMU) and the  Provincial Operation and Management Unit (POMU) that resulted to the discovery of three  clandestine marijuana farms.

In the first plantation site, operatives discovered about 3,000 fully grown marijuana plants with an SDP of Php 600,000.00 cultivated in a 150-square-meter land area, while in Site 2, additional 2,250 pieces of fully-grown marijuana plants with an SDP of Php 450,000.00, were discovered in a 250-square-meter lot.

Meanwhile, in Site 3, operating troops found Php1,020,000.00 worth of marijuana leaves & stalks hanged and being dried under the sun, all weighing 8,500 grams.

The discovered marijuana plants were destroyed on-site while only three pieces were brought to the Mt. Province Crime Laboratory for qualitative examination. (PROCOR-PIO)