33,860 marijuana plants burned in Tinglayan follow-up operation
Police and anti-drug agents uprooted and burned 33,860 fully grown marijuana plants worth about PHP 5.97 million in Barangays Buscalan and Loccong, Tinglayan, Kalinga, on 27 May 2018. No cultivator was arrested during the follow-up operation.
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Police and anti-drug agents uprooted and burned 33,860 fully grown marijuana plants in a follow-up operation in Tinglayan, Kalinga, on 27 May 2018.[1]The destroyed plants, found in Barangays Buscalan and Loccong, were valued at about PHP 5.97 million.[1]
The operation was led by PSSupt David K. Peredo with men from the Regional Mobile Force Battalion 15 and the Kalinga police in coordination with the drug enforcement agency’s Cordillera office.[1]No person was arrested during the operation.[1]
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