5,000 marijuana seedlings burned at Pingew in Kibungan
On 13 October 2026 police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency uprooted and burned about 5,000 marijuana seedlings on two plantations at Sitio Pingew, Proper Tacadang, Kibungan, valued by police at about 200,000 pesos. No cultivator was caught. A placard in the published photograph records one of the two sites as 2,000 seedlings.
🇵🇭 Sitio Pingew, Proper Tacadang, Kibungan, Benguet · Philippines
- Plants destroyed
- 5,000
- Value (official estimate)
- PHP 200,000
On Tuesday 13 October 2026 a joint team uprooted and burned about 5,000 marijuana seedlings in forest at Sitio Pingew, Proper Tacadang, Kibungan, Benguet.[1] Pilipino Star Ngayon said the seedlings were worth about 200,000 pesos and that the work fell under the police programme Oplan Ultimate Grass Cutter.[1]
The team was drawn from Kibungan municipal police, the 1st and 2nd provincial mobile force companies, the provincial drug enforcement and intelligence units, and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Cordillera.[1] They had found two marijuana plantations there.[1] No cultivator was caught during the operation.[1]
The photograph published with the article shows officers with a Kibungan police placard dated 13 October 2026 for Pingew, Proper Tacadang.[1] That board records site 01 as an estimated 2,000 seedlings on 50 square metres, with a standard drug price of 20,000 pesos.[1]
Sources
- 5,000 marijuana seedlings, binunot sa Benguet. Pilipino Star Ngayon, 16 October 2026. In Filipino.
Open questions the AI reported
- Only one news report of this operation was found.
- The article's 5,000 seedlings and 200,000 pesos cover two plantations. The placard in the photograph is for site 01 only, 2,000 seedlings on 50 square metres valued at 20,000 pesos, and the second site is not broken out.
- No cultivator was arrested.
- The map uses the latitude and longitude written on that placard, which is one of the two sites.
