Cordillera police burn 13,890 marijuana plants in Benguet and Kalinga
Cordillera police torched P5.2 million worth of cannabis in Benguet and Kalinga on 10 December 2024: 9,890 plants plus seedlings and 20 kg of dried material in Bakun and Kibungan, and 4,000 plants in Tinglayan. All plants were uprooted and burned on site, and no cultivators were caught.
Anti-narcotics operatives of the Cordillera police command torched P5.2 million worth of cannabis in Benguet and Kalinga provinces on Tuesday 10 December 2024.[1]In remote Barangays Kayapa in Bakun and Tacadang in Kibungan, both in Benguet, they found 9,890 fully grown plants, 800 seedlings and 20,000 grams of dried stalks, leaves and fruiting tops worth P4.4 million.[1]
On the same day, police with PDEA-Cordillera operatives seized 4,000 harvestable marijuana shrubs worth P800,000 in remote Barangay Ngibat, Tinglayan, Kalinga.[1]Cordillera police director Brig. Gen. David K. Peredo said all the plants were uprooted and burned on site, and that operatives were still hunting other plantation sites and those behind the farming.[1]
Case data
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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.
