3,000 marijuana plants uprooted and burned at Sugpon border
Police and anti-drug units uprooted about 3,000 fully grown marijuana plants on about 1,000 square metres at the Sugpon boundary on 27 September 2026, valuing them at about 600,000 pesos. The plants were inventoried and burned at the site, and no cultivator was reported arrested.
Police and anti-drug units uprooted and destroyed an estimated 600,000 pesos’ worth of fully grown marijuana plants at a plantation in Sugpon on 27 September.[1][2]The plantation stood at the boundary of Sitio Ogiyet in Barangay Licungan, Sugpon, and Barangay Tacadang in Kibungan, Benguet, according to the Ilocos Sur police.[1]
The site covered about 1,000 square metres and held about 3,000 fully grown plants, valued at an estimated 600,000 pesos at the standard drug price.[1][2]The operating teams came from the 2nd Provincial Mobile Force Company, PDEA Region 1, the provincial drug enforcement and intelligence units and Sugpon police.[1]They uprooted the plants, completed an inventory, evaluation and documentation, and burned the haul at the site.[1]
The provincial police said the operation forms part of its continuing campaign with partner agencies against marijuana cultivation in Ilocos Sur and nearby areas.[1]
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Officers with uprooted marijuana plants at the plantation site in Sugpon. Photo: Daily Tribune.Photo details
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