107,600 marijuana plants uprooted and burned in Loccong, Kalinga
Police and anti-drug teams uprooted and burned 107,600 marijuana plants across 5,650 square metres in Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan, during a 13 to 15 March 2019 operation. The haul was valued at 21.52 million pesos; the environment department later said the burning fire spread to a nearby pine reforestation site.
Joint troops of the Tinglayan municipal police, its drug enforcement unit, the
Provincial Mobile Force Company of the Kalinga police and agents of the
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Cordillera held a three-day marijuana
eradication in Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan, from 13 to 15 March 2019.[1]Run
under Oplan Linis Barangay VIII, the operation found five plantation sites
covering 5,650 square metres, and uprooted and burned on site 107,600 fully
grown marijuana plants.[1]The police valued the destroyed plants at 21.52
million pesos.[1]
Fire in the reforestation site
The environment department of Cordillera later said the March burning in
Loccong involved 70 million pesos worth of uprooted plants, and appealed to
anti-drug teams to protect trees when they set plantations ablaze.[2]Its
regional director said the fire spread about 100 metres to a pine reforestation
site under the national greening programme, razing 23 hectares with about 1,000
saplings, and that residents needed about two days to put it out.[2]
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The police valued the haul at 21.52 million pesos, while the environment department later described the March Loccong burning as 70 million pesos worth, and the report uses the police figure.
The reports name no arrests or charges from the eradication itself.
No photograph of the eradication with a recoverable address was found in the opened sources.
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.
