Police destroy about 750,000 marijuana plants in Loccong
Cordillera police and PDEA destroyed about 750,000 fully grown marijuana plants in Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan, Kalinga, on 12 August 2026. Police valued the crop at about PHP 150 million and reported no arrests.
Police Regional Office Cordillera and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency destroyed an estimated 750,000 fully grown marijuana plants in Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan, Kalinga, on 12 August 2026.[1]
The operation involved Kalinga police intelligence and drug-enforcement units, municipal police stations from Tinglayan, Balbalan, Lubuagan and Tanudan, two provincial mobile-force companies and PDEA-Kalinga.[1]Officers destroyed and burned the plants at the site to keep them from entering the illegal market.[1]
The PRO-CAR account put the standard drug price of the crop at about PHP 150 million and said the investigation and patrols would continue to identify the cultivators and other plantation sites.[1]
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Police and anti-drug personnel in the Loccong plantation area, pictured with the report.Photo details
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.
