LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Lawmen raided marijuana plantations in Benguet and Ilocos Sur last week torching the illegal plants valued at P11 million in a remote village in Kapangan town in Benguet and at least three large plantations in remote Sugpon town in Ilocos Sur.
The plantations were found by policemen from the Regional Anti-Illegal Drugs Task Group and Kapangan town at Sitio Linang and Lud-on in Barangay Gadang and in Sitio Padanga in Barangay Sagubo, both in Kapangan in a three-day operation.
Cordillera police’s deputy regional director for administration Chief Superintendent Samuel Diciano said at least 52,500 marijuana plants and 8,800 were burned.
At the same time Cordillera cops were torching marijuana in Kapangan, authorities were raiding several plantations in highland Sugpon, Ilocos Sur.
The haul was considered the biggest in marijuana eradication in Ilocos Sur in recent years.
Ilocos Sur police director Senior Supt. Eduardo Dupale accounted 1,600 fullly grown marijuana plants in the first plantation including 2,000 seedlings more while authorities torched a second plantation with 1,400 fully grown cannabis.
A third plantation had 1,200 plants and 200 more seedlings.
The illegal plants were all burned in the area except some which were taken as evidence, Dupale said.
No cultivator was collared, but with the raid, Dupale said a large chunk of a supposed large haul of supply of the illicit trade was denied from the market.
The operating troops that included the Ilocos Sur Anti-Illegal Drugs Task Group, PDEA-Ilocos, Candon and Alilem police forces who without sleep began to head to the mountainous town on foot to reach the plantations on Saturday midnight and reached the plantations five hours after, Dupale said.
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