43,000 marijuana plants burned in Kalinga operation
Cordillera police and PDEA agents uprooted and burned 43,000 fully grown marijuana plants at four sites in Barangay Ngibat, Tinglayan, in a three-day operation ending 14 April 2021. The haul and 400 grams of dried leaves were valued at 8.648 million pesos.
Working on the instructions of Cordillera police regional director Brig. Gen.
Ronald O. Lee, operatives of the Police Regional Office Cordillera and
PDEA-Cordillera found four marijuana plantation sites in Barangay Ngibat,
Tinglayan, and destroyed them in a three-day operation from 12 to 14 April
2021.[1][2]The four sites covered a combined 4,300 square metres, planted
with 43,000 fully grown marijuana plants worth 8.6 million pesos at the
standard drug price.[1][2]
Operatives also found 400 grams of dried marijuana leaves, worth 48,000 pesos,
at the first plantation site.[2]In all, 8,648,000 pesos of plants and dried
leaves were uprooted and burned on site.[2]Kalinga police chief Col. Davy
Vicente Limmong reported the discovery of the four sites during the operation.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
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.
