12,000 marijuana plants burned on a 1.2-hectare plantation in Tabuk City
Police and anti-drug agents uprooted and burned about 12,000 fully grown marijuana plants worth P2.4 million at Sitio Binongsay in Barangay Malin-awa, Tabuk City, Kalinga, on 4 and 5 August 2022. No cultivators were arrested.
🇵🇭 Sitio Binongsay, Barangay Malin-awa, Tabuk City, Kalinga · Philippines
Police and anti-drug agents uprooted and burned about 12,000 fully grown
marijuana plants in a plantation at Sitio Binongsay in Barangay Malin-awa, Tabuk
City, on 4 and 5 August 2022.[1]The eradication was carried out in Sitio
(sub-village) Binongsay in the village of Malin-awa and was named Oplan Lindol
by the police.[1]
Kalinga police spokesperson Police Major Garry Gayamos said the uprooted plants
were worth P2.4 million and came from a 1.2-hectare plantation.[1]No
cultivators were arrested in the operation.[1]
Police said in a statement on Saturday, 6 August, that the operation came out of
cooperation between local law enforcement partners and the public, which
provided information.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The accounts give 4 to 5 August as the operation dates, but the plantation may have been found on Friday, 5 August alone; no time of discovery is given.
No figure for the number of cultivators involved or any follow-up investigation was published.
Only one accessible source was opened; a Manila Bulletin article on the same operation was behind a paywall and could not be read.
Police confiscated 2,230 fully grown marijuana plants from three plantation sites in Kapangan, Benguet, which police valued at P446,000. The eradication was carried out separately by provincial operating units with no plantation arrests named.
Cordillera police destroyed 548,130 marijuana plants and 9,000 seedlings in 14 operations from 25 October to 1 November 2026, arresting six drug suspects. A parallel manhunt arrested 28 other fugitives, bringing the week's total reported arrests to 34.
Police destroyed three marijuana plantations in Kapangan and Kibungan, Benguet, on 30 October 2026, seizing 1,150 mature plants and 1,000 seedlings. Police valued the plants at P270,000 and burned them on site while seeking those responsible.
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