PDEA seizes P5.5M marijuana plants in Kalinga operations
Joint teams of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Kalinga police seized P5.5 million worth of marijuana in operations reported on 5 September 2011, including 20 bricks of dried leaves abandoned at a Tinglayan checkpoint and around 25,000 uprooted plants near Tabuk City. No cultivator was reported arrested.
🇵🇭 Tinglayan and Tabuk City, Kalinga · Philippines
Joint operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Kalinga Police Provincial Office confiscated a total of P5.5 million worth of marijuana plants in separate operations in the region in the week before police reported them on Monday 5 September 2011.[1]
Kalinga police director Senior Superintendent Ernesto Gaab said officers first seized 20 bricks of dried marijuana leaves, priced at P500,000, at Sitio Foyfoyan in Barangay Ambato-Legleg, Tinglayan town.[1]The bricks had been abandoned by still unidentified dealers riding tandem on a motorcycle who fled to avoid pursuit when they ran through a checkpoint.[1]
In a separate incident, PDEA agents uprooted around 25,000 fully grown marijuana plants in large plantations on the outskirts of Sitio Talaca in Barangay Agbannawag, Tabuk City.[1]
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