P2.1M marijuana plantation burned in San Gabriel, La Union
PDEA Region 1 and La Union police uprooted 8,500 marijuana plants and 10,500 seedlings on a 1,950-square-metre plot at Sitio Nakawa, Lon-oy, on the morning of 7 November 2023 and burned them on site. The crop was valued at P2,120,000 and no suspect was arrested.
🇵🇭 Sitio Nakawa, Lon-oy, San Gabriel, La Union · Philippines
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency’s Ilocos office and the La Union Police Provincial Office
raided a 1,950-square-metre marijuana plantation at Sitio Nakawa in Lon-oy village, San Gabriel,
on the morning of Tuesday 7 November 2023.[1][2]Officers uprooted about 10,500 seedlings and
8,500 fully grown plants, which PDEA Ilocos director Joel Plaza said were all burned on site
during the joint operation.[1][2]
PDEA valued the destroyed crop at P2,120,000.[1][2]No suspect was arrested, though regional
information officer Maripe De Guzman said a suspect had been identified and was still being
verified.[1]Charges were to be filed under Section 16 of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs
Act.[1]
Case data
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