8,100 marijuana plants uprooted in La Paz, Agusan del Sur
A joint police, military and PDEA team uprooted 8,100 marijuana plants from a 2,000-square-metre field in La Paz, Agusan del Sur, in an operation dubbed OPLAN DAHON 01-10. The plants were valued at about P1.6 million and no one was found at the site.
🇵🇭 Sitio Tinkug, Barangay Casapa 1, La Paz, Agusan del Sur · Philippines
A joint team from the Agusan del Sur police, the Regional Public Safety Battalion, the La Paz municipal police, PDEA Region 13 and the Philippine Army raided a marijuana plantation at Sitio Tinkug, Barangay Casapa 1, La Paz, on a Monday afternoon at 5:30.[1][2]The team was led on the police side by Agusan del Sur police director PSSupt. Antonio Paguirigan, with PDEA agents under Investigating Agent Joel Plaza and soldiers under Corporal Antonio Morgadez.[1][2]
The operation, dubbed OPLAN DAHON 01-10, followed reports from residents about a plantation hidden among thick vegetation near the Agusan del Sur–Bukidnon border.[1][2]Officers found two areas: a smaller plot where marijuana had reportedly been intercropped with upland rice was already cleared, while a bigger 2,000-square-metre field held fully grown plants.[1][2]
Burned on site
The team uprooted 8,100 stems of fully grown marijuana from the bigger field and burned the haul.[1][2]PDEA valued the plants at P1.6 million.[1][2]Nobody was at the plantation when officers arrived, and the reports name no arrests.[1][2]
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