36,000 marijuana plants burned on the Sadanga–Tinglayan boundary
On 14 September 2026 a PDEA-led team uprooted and burned about 36,000 fully grown marijuana plants on about 6,000 square metres of public land along the boundary of Barangay Saclit in Sadanga, Mountain Province, and Tinglayan, Kalinga. Police valued the plants at about 7.2 million pesos. No cultivator was caught.
🇵🇭 Barangay Saclit, Sadanga, Mountain Province · Philippines
- Plants destroyed
- 36,000
- Hectares
- 0.6
- Value (official estimate)
- PHP 7,200,000
On Monday 14 September 2026 a joint team uprooted and burned about 36,000 fully grown marijuana plants on about 6,000 square metres of public land along the boundary of Barangay Saclit in Sadanga, Mountain Province, and Tinglayan, Kalinga.[1][2] The Daily Tribune put the plants at about 7.2 million pesos.[1]
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency’s Mountain Province office led the work, with the Sadanga municipal police, the provincial intelligence and drug-enforcement units, and the 2nd provincial mobile force company.[1][2] No cultivator was caught at the site.[1][2] Abante reported that the caretakers may have been tipped off and left.[2] The inquiry into who planted the crop was still open.[1][2]
Sources
- P7.2M marijuana plants destroyed in Cordillera. Daily Tribune, 15 September 2026.
- P7.2M plantasyon ng marijuana winasak. Abante, 15 September 2026. In Filipino. Archived copy.
Open questions the AI reported
- No cultivator was arrested. Abante says the caretakers may have been warned and left. That is the outlet's suggestion, not a named suspect.
- The map marks Sadanga town. The plants were on the boundary with Tinglayan, Kalinga, which is not given a separate point.
- A later burning of 544,000 plants in Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan, on 27 October is a different event.
