BAGUIO CITY-- Edward Mendoza Jarencio, who identified himself as a brother of Alfredo “Pido” Jarencio, a former player of the Philippine Basketball Association and now coach of the University of Santo Tomas Growling Tigers basketball team, was caught red-handed with marijuana in a buy-bust operation by anti-drug agents here April 7.
Jarencio allegedly sold 80.50 grams of dried marijuana leaves to an agent of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency–Cordillera in a buy-bust operation around 11:45 p.m. near his boarding house here at Lourdes Subdivision, Baguio City.
He said he had just come from his work shift as chef at the Session Delights here along Session Road.
When frisked, he yielded an additional 18.20 grams of the dangerous drug and a rolled aluminum foil containing the same.
The nabbed dried marijuana from Jarencio was valued at P2,467.50.
Meanwhile, the PDEA’s Benguet special enforcement team and Kibungan municipal Police Station destroyed around 1,000 full-gown marijuana plants, valued at P200,000 in an eradication operation at Sitio Bileng, Sagpat, Kibungan, Benguet last April 6.
The marijuana plantation, concealed by sayote and banana plantations, is about an hour, uphill and downhill walk from the nearest area that can be reached by a vehicle.
Earlier, 5,500 full-grown marijuana plants and 2,400 marijuana seedlings were uprooted and burned at Bagu, Bakun, Benguet by operatives of PDEA, Benguet provincial public safety company and Bakun town police.
The seized marijuana last March 23 was valued at P1,196,000.
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