Police uproot 11,550 cannabis plants in Kalinga and Benguet
Joint police and PDEA teams uprooted and burned 9,000 cannabis plants and 1,200 seedlings in Kalinga and 2,550 plants in Benguet on 19 April 2025, worth P2.36 million, with no cultivators arrested at the sites.
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Police Regional Office Cordillera (PRO CAR) teams discovered and destroyed
marijuana plants worth PhP2,358,000 in eradication operations across Kalinga
and Benguet provinces on 19 April 2025.[1]
In Kalinga, joint operatives of Rizal and Tinglayan police stations, the 1st
Kalinga Provincial Mobile Force Company, the provincial drug enforcement unit
and PDEA-Kalinga found 9,000 fully grown plants and 1,200 seedlings worth
PhP1,848,000 in Buscalan, Tinglayan and Romualdez, Rizal.[1]
In Benguet, joint forces of Bakun and Kibungan police, provincial drug and
intelligence units, regional intelligence units and PDEA-CAR found 2,550 fully
grown plants worth PhP510,000 in Badeo, Kibungan and Kayapa, Bakun.[1]
All plants were uprooted and burned on site, with samples kept for the
regional forensic unit, while investigations continue to find the growers.[1]
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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.
