186,930 marijuana plants destroyed across 22 hectares in Benguet
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, army and police teams uprooted 150,320 mature marijuana plants and 36,610 seedlings across 22 hectares at 36 sites in Kibungan and Bakun, Benguet, in a three-day operation ending 5 December 2008; Cordillera police valued the haul at about ₱31.5 million and burned it at Camp Dangwa.
Joint police, Philippine Army and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) teams hit marijuana
fields across Benguet in a three-day operation that Cordillera police director Chief Superintendent
Eugene Martin said covered 22 hectares at 36 sites.[1][2]They uprooted 150,320 fully grown plants
and 36,610 seedlings in Barangays Badeo and Takadang, Kibungan, and Barangay Kayapa, Bakun.[1][2]
Burn at Camp Dangwa
Martin put the Dangerous Drugs Board-priced haul at ₱31,528,400.[1][2]The force burned the
uprooted cannabis at Camp Dangwa on Friday afternoon while vowing to keep clearing plantations in
Benguet.[1]Neither Star account filed on 7 and 8 December 2008 reports any arrest during the
sweep.[1][2]
PDEA-Cordillera, Benguet police, the Philippine Air Force’s Tactical Operations Group 1, the 503rd
Infantry Brigade and municipal police from Bakun and Kibungan took part.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The Philippine Star said the three-day sweep happened “this week” before the 7 December 2008 story; the burn at Camp Dangwa was on the preceding Friday afternoon (5 December 2008).
No cultivators were reported arrested; the articles promise continued operations but name no charges filed.
Both opened Philippine Star pieces are the same outlet in English and Filipino; no independent second publisher was found for this specific sweep.
Police confiscated 2,230 fully grown marijuana plants from three plantation sites in Kapangan, Benguet, which police valued at P446,000. The eradication was carried out separately by provincial operating units with no plantation arrests named.
Cordillera police destroyed 548,130 marijuana plants and 9,000 seedlings in 14 operations from 25 October to 1 November 2026, arresting six drug suspects. A parallel manhunt arrested 28 other fugitives, bringing the week's total reported arrests to 34.
Police destroyed three marijuana plantations in Kapangan and Kibungan, Benguet, on 30 October 2026, seizing 1,150 mature plants and 1,000 seedlings. Police valued the plants at P270,000 and burned them on site while seeking those responsible.
Kalinga police uprooted and burned 544,000 fully grown marijuana plants across seven sites in Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan, on 27 October 2026, an operation the provincial office valued at about ₱108.8 million. No cultivators were arrested.
