11,050 marijuana plants and 3,000 seedlings burned at Sugpon
From 5 a.m. on 8 September to 10.20 p.m. on 9 September 2026 police burned about 11,050 fully grown marijuana plants and 3,000 seedlings on seven sites covering about 1,960 square metres along the Sugpon–Kibungan border. The Daily Tribune valued the haul at about 2.33 million pesos. No cultivator was arrested.
🇵🇭 Licungan, Sugpon, Ilocos Sur · Philippines
- Plants destroyed
- 14,050
- Hectares
- 0.2
- Value (official estimate)
- PHP 2,330,000
From 5 a.m. on 8 September until 10.20 p.m. on 9 September 2026, Ilocos Sur police burned marijuana on seven sites along the border of Barangay Licungan in Sugpon and Barangay Tacadang in Kibungan, Benguet.[1][2] The sites covered about 1,960 square metres and held about 11,050 fully grown plants and 3,000 seedlings.[1] The Daily Tribune valued plants and seedlings together at about 2.33 million pesos.[1] RMN, citing the Dangerous Drugs Board price, put the grown plants at 2.21 million pesos and the seedlings at 120,000 pesos.[2]
The largest site was about 800 square metres, with about 4,000 fully grown plants valued at 800,000 pesos.[1] Another, of about 450 square metres, held about 2,700 plants valued at 540,000 pesos.[1] Officers uprooted and burned the plants after an inventory and kept samples for a laboratory.[1]
The Ilocos Sur provincial drug enforcement unit led the work, with the regional mobile force, two provincial mobile companies, the provincial intelligence unit and Sugpon police.[1] No cultivator was arrested.[1]
Sources
- Authorities destroy P2.33M marijuana plants. Daily Tribune, 10 September 2026.
- ₱2.44M HALAGA NG MARIJUANA, WINASAK NG AWTORIDAD SA SUGPON, ILOCOS SUR. RMN, 14 September 2026. In Filipino.
Open questions the AI reported
- No cultivator was arrested.
- RMN splits the two-day haul as 2.21 million pesos for 11,050 grown plants and 120,000 pesos for 3,000 seedlings. The Daily Tribune gives one figure of about 2.33 million pesos for plants and seedlings together. This report uses the Tribune total.
- A follow-up on 10 September at Barangay Caoayan in Sugpon, 560 plants worth 112,000 pesos, is in the same RMN story and is a different event left out here.
- The map marks Sugpon town. The sites were on the border with Barangay Tacadang in Kibungan, Benguet.
- The RMN page graphic carries a 2.44 million peso caption that also covers the 10 September raid, so it is not listed as a photograph of only these seven sites.
