From 13 to 15 September 2022, Kalinga police and Regional Mobile Force Battalion 15 raided two plantation sites covering 2.1 hectares in Barangay Tulgao West, Tinglayan.[1] They uprooted 256,500 fully grown marijuana plants with a standard drug price of about PHP 51.5 million and burned them on site.[1] The regional police information officer said teams keep revisiting cleared sites so that seeds left behind cannot grow into a new crop, as supply-reduction work ordered continued from the past administration goes on.[1] The report names no arrests.[1]
256,500 marijuana plants destroyed in Tinglayan in three-day operation
Police and mobile-force troops destroyed 256,500 fully grown marijuana plants worth about PHP 51.5 million on two 2.1-hectare sites in Barangay Tulgao West, Tinglayan, on 13-15 September 2022. The plants were burned on site and no arrests were reported.
🇵🇭 Barangay Tulgao West, Tinglayan, Kalinga · Philippines
- Plants destroyed
- 256,500
- Area
- 2.1 ha
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis, Living plants
- Case stage
- Under investigation
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Plants destroyed
- 256,500
- Area
- 2.1 ha
- Value (official estimate)
- PHP 51,500,000
- Agency type
- Police
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis; Living plants (256,500 plants)
- Activity
- Cultivation
- Setting
- Field
- Grown
- Outdoor
- Case stage
- Under investigation
Sources
- Zigzag Weekly (Philippine News Agency)zigzagweekly.netCordillera cops destroy over P51-M marijuana in Kalinga
Open questions the AI reported
- Only one source could be opened for this operation, a weekly newspaper republishing a Philippine News Agency dispatch.
- Whether any cultivators were identified after the operation was not reported.
