Oplan Herodotus 3 destroys 693,615 marijuana plants in Cordillera
Police, PDEA and drug-enforcement units destroyed 693,615 fully grown marijuana plants, 35,560 seedlings and 75 kg of dried leaves worth PHP149.1 million in 29 raids across Benguet and Kalinga from 16 to 23 July 2023. Ten people were arrested in separate operations for methamphetamine, not cannabis.
🇵🇭 Benguet and Kalinga, Cordillera Administrative Region · Philippines
Joint teams of the Police Regional Office Cordillera, the Philippine Drug
Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-Cordillera and the PNP Drug Enforcement Group ran 29
marijuana eradication operations in Benguet and Kalinga from 16 to 23 July
2023.[1][2]They destroyed 693,615 fully grown marijuana plants, 35,560
seedlings and 75,000 grams of dried leaves and stalks, worth PHP149,145,400.[1][2]
Ten people were arrested during the same eight-day period, but in separate
anti-drug operations in Baguio, Benguet and Abra, caught with 10.69 grams of
shabu (methamphetamine) worth PHP72,692, not cannabis.[1][2]Regional director
Brig. Gen. David Peredo Jr. said the volume of marijuana found was sharply
lower than in Herodotus 1 and 2, which he read as proof the operations were
working.[1][2]
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.
