4,660 marijuana plants destroyed at Mt. Teba, Sugpon
Police destroyed about 4,660 marijuana plants found at four plantations on the disputed Mt. Teba boundary in Barangay Licungan, Sugpon, Ilocos Sur on 29 August 2026. Police valued the 4,000 seedlings and 660 mature plants at about P292,000, uprooted and burned them at the site after documentation, and arrested no one.
No cultivator was arrested during the operation.[1]The operation was led by
Maj. Ryan Afos, officer-in-charge of the 2nd Ilocos Sur Provincial Mobile Force
Company.[1]Police secured samples for laboratory examination.[1]
Police discovered four marijuana plantations containing an estimated 4,000
seedlings and 660 mature plants during an operation in a disputed area in
Sugpon.[1]Police said the confiscated marijuana plants had an estimated total
standard drug price of P292,000.[1]The marijuana plants were uprooted,
inventoried and documented before being destroyed by burning at the site.[1]
Personnel of the 2nd Ilocos Sur Provincial Mobile Force Company, in coordination
with other police units, conducted the operation on Saturday (Aug. 29) at the
disputed boundary of Mt. Teba in Barangay Licungan, Sugpon.[1]The operation
was conducted under Oplan Deicesais 2026, with personnel from the Ilocos Sur
Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit, Ilocos Sur Provincial Intelligence and
Detection Management Unit-KIMAT, Sugpon Municipal Police Station, 1st Ilocos Sur
Provincial Mobile Force Company and the Police Intelligence Team of the Ilocos
Sur Regional Intelligence Unit 1.[1]
Photos and video
Police uproot marijuana plants from the four plantations at Mt. Teba, Barangay Licungan. Photo: PNP 2nd Ilocos Sur Provincial Mobile Force Company, Ilocos Sur PPO via INQUIRER.netPhoto details
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