Man arrested as NBI uproots cannabis in Luinab, Iligan City
NBI agents with PDEA, police and soldiers raided two adjacent marijuana plantations in Purok 5, Barangay Luinab, Iligan City, on 28 February 2018 and arrested a man the agency named as Jason Salogan Ermac. The NBI said six plants were taken from him and about 100 uprooted hills were found in the ground, while its regional office put the plantations at a hectare each.
🇵🇭 Purok 5, Barangay Luinab, Iligan City · Philippines
NBI agents, PDEA agents, police and soldiers raided two adjacent marijuana
plantations in Purok 5, Barangay Luinab, Iligan City, on 28 February 2018, a
Wednesday.[1]The suspect, identified by the NBI as Jason Salogan Ermac, was
arrested during the operation; a local radio report gave his age as 25.[2]NBI
Northern Mindanao head agent Alex Cabornay said the plantations, which he
described as measuring a hectare each, were adjacent and that intelligence
reports had been verified before the raid.[1]
Cabornay said the team uprooted fully grown marijuana plants and seedlings.[1]The NBI said six hills of medium-grown plants were taken from the suspect’s
possession and control, while about 100 hills of suspected uprooted marijuana
plants were left in the ground.[2]The NBI said the suspect was caught in the
act of planting and cultivating marijuana plants.[2]Bombo Radyo Cagayan de
Oro reported that the NBI had been told the suspect ran two hectares of
plantation, found six plants on arrival and asked PDEA, the police and the
military for backup.[3]
The suspect was held at the NBI Northern Mindanao office in Cagayan de Oro City
pending inquest proceedings for violation of RA 9165, the Comprehensive
Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.[2]The Inquirer reported that he faces charges
under the anti-drugs law.[1]Bombo Radyo reported that the NBI considered the
case non-bailable.[3]
Case data
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No total for the uprooted plants was given; the NBI's figure of more or less 100 hills refers to traces of plants already uprooted in the area, and the report uses that figure as the count destroyed.
The NBI describes the area as mountainous land in Purok 5, Upper Luinab, while the Inquirer speaks of two plantations of a hectare each; the area figure of one to two hectares is not recorded as a figure.
Bombo Radyo gives the suspect's age as 25, which no other account confirms, and names the NBI regional director rather than the head agent quoted by the Inquirer.
No plea, court outcome or filing of the inquest case was reported; the news accounts end with the suspect in NBI custody.
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