860,000 marijuana plants burned in Kalinga in Oplan Five Fingers raids
Police and PDEA agents uprooted and burned about 860,000 marijuana plants worth 17.48 million pesos across 15 sites in Tinglayan, Kalinga, on 27 to 29 April 2018. No cultivator was arrested; police said identities were being validated so charges could follow.
🇵🇭 Barangays Buscalan and Loccong, Tinglayan, Kalinga · Philippines
Joint police and anti-narcotics teams uprooted and burned about 860,000 marijuana plants across 15 plantation sites in Tinglayan, Kalinga, during a three-day operation from 27 to 29 April 2018.[1]Personnel of the Kalinga police, Regional Mobile Force Battalion 15 and PDEA Cordillera ran “Oplan Five Fingers Saga” through Barangays Buscalan and Loccong, hauling out 847,000 mature plants and 13,000 seedlings and burning them on site at a Dangerous Drugs Board value of 17.48 million pesos.[1]Only token samples were kept for evidence in Tinglayan.[1]No cultivator was arrested in the operation; regional director Edward Carranza said identities were being validated so charges could follow.[1]
Carranza vowed the campaign would continue until the last cultivator, financier and pusher is jailed, framing the raid as part of the president’s standing orders against drugs and crime.[1]
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Only the police release as republished by ZigZag Weekly could be opened; PNA and the Manila Bulletin carried the same operation but their pages could not be opened, so no independent account is cited.
No figure for the area cleared was published.
No cultivator was named or arrested in these reports.
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