Cordillera police seize P30.3M in drugs, arrest 11 in weeklong operations
Cordillera police ran 42 anti-drug operations across the region from 10 to 16 March 2025, destroying 129,720 marijuana plants and 35 kg of dried cannabis worth P30.3 million and arresting 11 suspects, three of them high-value individuals.
From 10 to 16 March 2025, the Police Regional Office Cordillera (PRO-CAR) ran
42 anti-drug operations across the region, according to its Regional Operations
Division as carried by Baguio’s Zigzag Weekly.[1]
Officers destroyed 129,720 fully grown marijuana plants and 150 seedlings, and
seized30,016.13 grams of dried marijuana leaves and fruiting tops plus 5,000
grams of dried stalks, with an overall standard drug price of P30,345,953.20.[1]Small amounts of suspected shabu were also seized in Baguio and Apayao.[1]
The operations led to 11 arrests: three high-value individuals and eight
street-level suspects.[1]The largest cannabis hauls were in Benguet, worth
P19,450,000, and in Kalinga, worth P9,716,000 with two street-level suspects
held, followed by smaller seizures in Mountain Province, Baguio, Ifugao and
Apayao.[1]Regional director Brig. Gen. David K. Peredo Jr. commended the
operatives and the communities whose cooperation aided the campaign.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
11
Plants destroyed
129,720
Cannabis
35.01613 kg
Value (official estimate)
PHP 30,345,953.2
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (35.01613 kg); Living plants (129,720 plants)
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.
