28,300 marijuana plants and 1,000 seedlings burned in Tinglayan, Kalinga
Anti-narcotics teams uprooted and burned 28,300 marijuana plants and 1,000 seedlings across ten plantation sites in Butbut Proper, Tinglayan, in a 27–29 May 2019 operation. The plants covered 2,931 square metres and were valued at about 5.6 million pesos; no cultivators were found on site.
Joint teams from PDEA-Kalinga, the Tinglayan and Lubuagan municipal police, the Kalinga police
mobile force companies, the drug enforcement unit and the provincial intelligence branch hiked
mountain paths to reach ten plantation sites in Butbut Proper, Tinglayan, covering 2,931 square
metres.[1][2]The three-day operation of 27–29 May 2019, run under PDEA’s Oplan Linis Barangay XI
and the police’s Oplan Green Pearl Bravo, uprooted and burned 28,300 fully grown marijuana plants
and 1,000 seedlings on site.[1][2]
Value and no arrests
PDEA-CAR regional director Edgar Apalla valued the destroyed plants at about 5.6 million
pesos.[1]No cultivators were found at the sites; Apalla’s office said the growers likely fled
when they heard the teams hiking up, a pattern seen across Cordillera plantation raids.[1]
Case data
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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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