TABUK CITY, Kalinga – Fully grown marijuana plants worth P26 million were seized in eradication operations in Tinglayan, this province, by the police last month.
Police Capt. Ruff Manganip, Kalinga police spokesperson, said operatives destroyed 10,400 FGMPs valued at P2 million from two plantation sites with an estimated land area of 1,100-square meters in the communal forest of Barangay Butbut Proper on January 19 to 20.
On January 22 to 23, 120,000 FGMPs valued at P24 million were destroyed in a communal forest with an estimated area of 10,000-square meters in Barangay Butbut Proper.
Police Col. Freddie Lazona, Kalinga police chief, said uprooted marijuana plants were burned onsite and enough samples were taken to Kalinga Provincial Forensic Unit for qualitative test.
An alternative recording device was used to document the operations.
Lazona said that no cultivator arrested during their operation but follow-up investigation is ongoing to identify them.