32,400 marijuana plants destroyed in Benguet and La Union
Anti-narcotics and police teams uprooted about 32,400 marijuana plants worth some 54 million pesos near the Benguet-La Union boundary in early February 2008. The plants were destroyed after joint operations in Kibungan, Benguet and Santol, La Union prompted by residents' tip-offs.
🇵🇭 Badeo, Kibungan and Sapda, Santol · Philippines
Combined anti-narcotics and police operatives uprooted and destroyed at least 54 million pesos worth of marijuana plants near the boundary of Benguet and La Union in early February 2008.[1]
Superintendent Joker Cuanso, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency director for Cordillera, said about 32,400 plants were destroyed: 24,000 worth 40 million pesos in Sitio Apana, Badeo, Kibungan, Benguet, and 8,400 worth 14 million pesos in Sitio Cutali, Sapda, Santol, La Union.[1]Cuanso credited tip-offs from concerned residents for the successful operations.[1]
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The Tempo account, reposted on 9 February 2008, dates the raids only as "recently"; 9 February is used as the report date.
Only the Tempo account, as reposted, could be reopened; no second publisher's account of this operation was found.
The same article describes an earlier clearance of 19 plantation sites in Bakun, Kibungan and Kapangan worth 111 million pesos and two arrests with 742 kg of marijuana bricks at a Bontoc checkpoint, separate events left out here.
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