Police arrested three people and destroyed 20,000 marijuana plants in separate anti-drug operations in Kalinga on 29 April 2021.[1][2] Cordillera police director Brig. Gen. Ronald O. Lee named the three as Carlos Bocad Banosan, 27, Mylene Bullay Sola-og, 25, both of San Pedro village in Rizal town, and Ninoy Dalacnas Addawe, 30, of Tabuk.[1][2]
Joint officers from the regional intelligence division, Quezon City police and the national police drug enforcement group arrested Banosan and Sola-og after they sold marijuana to an undercover buyer in Bulanao, Tabuk City.[1][2] Officers seized 45 marijuana bricks and eight tubular packs of dried marijuana weighing about 49 kg in all, valued at 5.88 million pesos.[1][2] Sola-og had been monitored selling drugs in parts of Kalinga, according to the operatives.[1][2]
Addawe was caught in a separate buy-bust in Bulanao Norte, but for selling suspected shabu rather than cannabis.[1][2] Officers took half a gram worth 3,400 pesos, buy-bust cash, a phone and a motorcycle from him.[1][2] All the seized evidence was documented and inventoried on site in front of witnesses, and all three suspects were held facing charges under the drugs law.[1][2]
In Tinglayan town, operatives uprooted and burned 20,000 fully grown marijuana plants at two sites in Loccong covering 2,000 square metres, worth about 4 million pesos.[2] No cultivator was caught there.[2]
