240,000 marijuana plants burned in Tinglayan communal forest
A joint force of police, soldiers and anti-narcotics agents overran an 8,000-square-metre marijuana plantation in a communal forest in Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan, Kalinga, on 1 May 2024, uprooting and burning 240,000 mature plants police valued at P48 million.
A joint force of Cordillera police, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, the Air Force, the Coast Guard, the Army and police counter-intelligence overran an 8,000-square-metre marijuana plantation in a communal forest in Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan, Kalinga, on 1 May 2024.[1][2]Officers uprooted 240,000 fully grown marijuana plants and set them on fire at the site.[1][2]Police valued the plantation at P48 million.[1][2]
PRO-Cordillera director Brig. Gen. David Peredo called the raid a milestone in the region’s campaign against marijuana cultivation.[1][2]
No arrests reported
The reports name no growers and no arrests at the plantation.[1][2]
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Cordillera police uprooted marijuana plants in Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan, Kalinga during a raidPhoto details
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No growers were identified and no arrests at the plantation were reported.
The same BusinessWorld article reports a separate La Trinidad sting in which two gardeners were caught selling dried marijuana leaves, a different event left out here.
BusinessWorld dates the raid to Tuesday in its photo caption and Wednesday in its text, and the report uses Wednesday 1 May 2024.
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.
Kalinga police uprooted and burned 544,000 fully grown marijuana plants across seven sites in Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan, on 27 October 2026, an operation the provincial office valued at about ₱108.8 million. No cultivators were arrested.
