Police burn 23,210 marijuana plants in Kalinga and Benguet raids
Police and PDEA teams uprooted and burned 23,210 marijuana plants plus 18,400 seedlings across Kalinga and Benguet provinces on 5 December 2025, worth over P5.3 million, with no growers arrested at the sites.
🇵🇭 Butbut Proper, Tinglayan, Kalinga and Kayapa, Bakun and Badeo, Kibungan, Benguet · Philippines
On 5 December 2025, Police Regional Office–Cordillera (PRO-CAR) teams ran
coordinated marijuana eradication operations across Kalinga and Benguet
provinces.[1]
In Kalinga, operatives found three plantations holding 16,000 fully grown
marijuana plants valued at P3.2 million in Barangay Butbut Proper, Tinglayan,
working with the 2nd Kalinga Provincial Mobile Force Company, the Tinglayan
police, provincial drug enforcement and intelligence units and PDEA-CAR.[1]
In Benguet, combined forces found four plantations with 7,210 fully grown
plants and 18,400 seedlings carrying a standard drug price of P2.178 million
in Barangay Kayapa, Bakun and Barangay Badeo, Kibungan.[1]
All the plants were uprooted and burned on site, and police said
investigations continue to identify other cultivation sites and the people
behind the plantations.[1]
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Police operatives uproot and burn marijuana plants in Kalinga and Benguet on 5 December 2025Photo details
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.
