8,000 marijuana plants torched in Tinglayan in day-long Cordillera sweep
Joint Kalinga police and PDEA teams uprooted and burned about 8,000 fully grown marijuana plants worth P1.6 million on an 800-square-metre lot in Tinglayan on 10 September 2024, catching no cultivator at the site.
Combined operatives of the Kalinga police office uprooted and torched about P1.6 million worth of
fully grown marijuana plants in Kalinga on Tuesday 10 September 2024.[1][2]At least 8,000 plants
stood on an 800-square-metre lot discovered through “Oplan Wasay” (Axe).[1]The operation was
led by Tinglayan town police with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency’s Cordillera office,
joined by the Kalinga intelligence and drug enforcement units, PDEA Kalinga, the 2nd Kalinga
mobile force company and the regional mobile force battalion.[1][2]
No one caught
After documenting the haul, officers destroyed the plants at the site, and no one was caught as
the grower behind the plantation.[1]The day-long Cordillera operations also netted shabu and
an arrest in Ifugao and Benguet, reported separately from this eradication.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
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.
