4,100 marijuana plants burned across seven Benguet plantations
On 29 April 2026 Cordillera police and PDEA-Cordillera uprooted and burned 4,100 fully grown marijuana plants and about 30,000 grams of dried stalks across seven sites in Kibungan, Kapangan and Bakun, which authorities valued at about 4.42 million pesos. No cultivator was caught.
On Tuesday 29 April 2026 police in the Cordillera found and burned 4,100 fully grown
marijuana plants and about 30,000 grams of dried marijuana stalks across seven plantations
in Benguet province.[1][2]
Daily Tribune said the sites were in Barangays Badeo and Tacadang in Kibungan, Gadang in
Kapangan and Kayapa in Bakun, and that the marijuana had a standard drug price of about
4,420,000 pesos.[1][2]Municipal police from Kibungan, Bakun and Kapangan, Benguet
provincial mobile force companies, regional specialized units and the Philippine Drug
Enforcement Agency in the Cordillera carried out the eradication.[1][2]
The plants were burned on site and police were still trying to identify those behind the
fields.[1][2]No cultivator was caught during the plantation operation.[1][2]
A photograph released by the Police Regional Office Cordillera shows officers at one of
the cleared sites.[1]
The same news cycle also covered an unrelated shabu buy-bust in Mankayan; this report
covers only the seven-plantation eradication.[1][2]
Photos and video
Cordillera police at one of the seven marijuana sites cleared in Benguet on 29 April 2026; photograph courtesy of PRO-CAR.Photo details
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.
