Anti-narcotics agents destroyed PHP 11.6 million worth of marijuana plants in a two-day joint operation in Tinglayan town, Kalinga province, on 29 and 30 August 2018.[1] Personnel from PDEA Cordillera, the local police and the Philippine Army carried out the raids in Barangays Buscalan and Butbut under the PDEA’s “Oplan Linis Barangay IV” and the Tinglayan police’s “Oplan NON-Buds”.[1]
On the first day the operatives destroyed 33,700 fully grown plants worth PHP 6.74 million on eight sites covering 4,250 square metres in Buscalan.[1] On the second day they destroyed 11,800 more plants plus 20,000 grams of stalks worth PHP 4.86 million on three sites covering 2,900 square metres in Butbut, bringing the two-day total to 45,500 plants on eleven sites.[1]
No cultivator was arrested, though troops said they would keep monitoring the area and keep destroying the plants before harvest.[1] PDEA Cordillera noted the drive was its fourth major eradication wave in Tinglayan that year.[1]
