2,230 marijuana plants seized from 3 sites in Kapangan, Benguet
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.
🇵🇭 Barangays Kayapa, Bakun and Sagubo, Kapangan, Benguet · Philippines
- Plants destroyed
- 2,230
- Value (official estimate)
- PHP 446,000
Police operatives discovered three marijuana plantations in Benguet during
separate anti-illegal drug operations in the Cordillera Administrative Region
(CAR).[1] The three plantation sites were reported in Barangays Kayapa, Bakun
and Sagubo in the municipality of Kapangan, Benguet.[1] The marijuana
eradication operations in the province were conducted separately by operating
units.[1] The account of the Benguet operations was attributed to the Police
Regional Office-Cordillera Administrative Region (PRO-CAR).[1]
Officers confiscated a total of 2,230 fully grown marijuana plants from the
three Kapangan plantation sites.[1] PRO-CAR, the Cordillera regional police
office, estimated the standard drug price of the confiscated plants at P446,000.[1] The P446,000 figure is the police estimate at the standard drug price, not
an independently verified market value.[1]
The three sites were handled as separate eradication targets in the provincial
operations.[1] Kapangan is the municipality in Benguet where all three
reported plantation sites were located.[1] The confiscation account covers
only fully grown marijuana plants, with no other cannabis weight reported for
these sites.[1]
Sources
- 3 marijuana plantations discovered in Benguet; drug personality arrested in Kalinga. DZRH News, 3 November 2026.
Open questions the AI reported
- The article gives only its publication date of 3 November 2026 and no separate date for the eradication, so the incident date uses the publication date.
- Only one source for this 2,230-plant Kapangan eradication could be opened; no second account confirming the figures was found.
- The same page also reports a separate buy-bust in Barangay Bulanao, Tabuk City, Kalinga involving 0.10 grams of suspected shabu, a non-cannabis drug left out of this report and not counted in figures.
- The site listing as Barangays Kayapa, Bakun and Sagubo in the municipality of Kapangan is ambiguous because Bakun is also a separate municipality, so the map marks Kapangan municipality at district precision.
- The report names no cultivators or arrests at the plantation sites.
- The P446,000 figure is the authorities' estimate at the standard drug price, not an independently verified market value.
