Combined teams of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) destroyed two million pesos worth of fully grown marijuana plants during an eradication operation in Tinglayan, Kalinga, on 18 July 2015.[1]
PDEA Director General Arturo G. Cacdac Jr. said teams from PDEA Cordillera under Director Juvenal B. Azurin, the Provincial Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group Provincial Intelligence Branch, the Cordillera Regional Public Safety Battalion, the Regional Intelligence Division, Regional Intelligence Unit-14 and the Tinglayan Municipal Police Station carried out the operation.[1] They worked on Mount Chumanchil in Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan, where they confiscated and destroyed 10,000 fully grown marijuana plants.[1]
The plants were uprooted from a plantation of about 800 square metres and burned on site.[1] No cultivator was arrested during the operation.[1]
