PDEA and Kalinga police destroy 200,000 cannabis plants in Tinglayan
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and Kalinga police uprooted about 200,000 fully grown marijuana plants from 7.4 hectares across two Tinglayan barangays in a two-day operation, valued by authorities at about ₱40 million; samples were burned ceremonially in Tabuk on 17 August 2005.
Anti-narcotics agents and Kalinga police torched marijuana worth about ₱40 million after a two-day
eradication operation in Tinglayan this week in August 2005.[1]Philippine Drug Enforcement
Agency regional director Danilo Flordeliza said teams found 7.4 hectares of plantations in Sitio
Kasablutan, Barangay Loccong, and Sitio Kaum-uma, Barangay Tulgao West, totaling about 200,000
fully grown plants.[1][2]
Access and ceremony
Flordeliza said villagers tipped off the raiders, who walked four hours from Tinglayan town to reach
the hills.[1]Part of the haul was brought to Tabuk, Kalinga’s capital, where Governor Dominador
Belac and provincial prosecutor Arsenio Ande led a ceremonial burning on 17 August with local
officials and journalists present.[1][2]Philstar’s Tagalog edition reported the same hectares,
plant count and Tabuk ceremony.[2]
Demand
The regional PDEA office told Philstar that demand for marijuana had risen relative to shabu, with
pushers shifting toward cannabis; the opened reports do not quantify that claim beyond the
Tinglayan eradication figures.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The ₱40 million valuation is an official estimate tied to plant counts, not audited market prices.
Philstar reported villagers tipped off the team but does not name informants or report any arrests.
Part of the crop was torched in the field and part brought to Tabuk for a ceremonial burn with provincial officials; the split between those quantities is not specified.
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.
