129 marijuana plants uprooted after eight-hour trek in Toledo City
On 3 September 2026 Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency teams and police uprooted and burned 129 fully grown marijuana plants worth about 25,800 pesos at Sitio Guincamote, Barangay Captain Claudio, Toledo City. The cultivator known as alias Per, 30, fled before officers arrived.
🇵🇭 Sitio Guincamote, Barangay Captain Claudio, Toledo City, Cebu · Philippines
- Plants destroyed
- 129
- Value (official estimate)
- PHP 25,800
After an eight-hour trek, a team led by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)
uprooted 129 fully grown marijuana plants around 11:08 on Thursday 3 September 2026 at
Sitio Guincamote, Barangay Captain Claudio, Toledo City, Cebu.[1][2]
SunStar Super Balita said the plants were worth about 25,800 pesos and that PDEA-7
identified the cultivator as alias Per, 30, who was not there when officers arrived.[1]
Daily Tribune put the same value on the plants and said regional director Joel B.
Plaza reported that alias Gene had fled; representative samples went for laboratory
testing and the rest were burned on site.[2]
The force included Toledo City police, Naval Forces Central, the provincial intelligence
unit and the 2nd provincial mobile force company.[1] SunStar said police were still
looking for alias Per to face cultivation charges under the Comprehensive Dangerous
Drugs Act.[1]
The published photographs show PDEA officers with the uprooted plants in forest at
Guincamote on the operation day.[1][2]
Sources
- Plantasyon sa marijuana sa Toledo City gironda, tag-iya nakasibat. SunStar Super Balita Cebu, 4 September 2026. In Filipino.
- PDEA destroys marijuana farm. Daily Tribune, 5 September 2026.
Open questions the AI reported
- Daily Tribune named the fugitive cultivator as alias Gene, while SunStar Super Balita named alias Per, 30; both say he was not present.
- Neither report states how many people took part beyond listing participating units.
- The map uses Captain Claudio barangay centre coordinates; the plantation was in forest at Sitio Guincamote.
