92,225 marijuana plants burned in PRO-1 and PDEA raids in Ilocos and La Union
From 23 to 26 October 2025, Police Regional Office 1 and PDEA uprooted and burned 92,225 fully grown marijuana plants and 5,080 seedlings in mountainous Licungan, Sugpon, and Santol, La Union, valued at PHP 18.6 million; no cultivators were arrested.
🇵🇭 Licungan, Sugpon, Ilocos Sur and Tubaday, Santol, La Union · Philippines
From 23 to 26 October 2025, the Police Regional Office in Ilocos Region (PRO-1) and the Philippine
Drug Enforcement Agency burned marijuana plantations in the mountains of Sugpon, Ilocos Sur, and
Santol, La Union.[1]
PRO-1 information chief Maj. Divina Albino said the agencies uprooted 92,225 fully grown plants and
5,080 seedlings over four days, valuing the destroyed cannabis at PHP 18.6 million under Dangerous
Drugs Board price rules.[1]Work began in Barangay Licungan, Sugpon, and Sitio Manaba, Barangay
Tubaday, Santol, and continued with further Licungan sites on later days.[1]
On 25 October alone, PRO-1 and PDEA Regional Office 1 cleared seven Licungan plantations covering
6,100 square metres and burned 37,800 fully grown plants worth about PHP 7.56 million on site after
documentation.[2]Albino said no one was arrested; destroying the fields was the immediate aim.[1][2]
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PRO-1 personnel at a marijuana eradication site in Sugpon during the October 2025 campaign.Photo details
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Source: Daily Tribune (PRO-1)Marijuana destroyed during the Region 1 eradication series, shown with the RMN report.Photo details
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