By Marcelo B. Lihgawon
LAGAWE, Ifugao -- The Philippine
National Police scored anew in their
campaign against illegal
drugs and wanted persons in the province.
Provincial police chief Supt.
Ramil Saculles reported that about 2,000 fully grown marijuana plants valued P.4
million were destroyed in Barangay Gumhang by PNP elements led by Tinoc town
police chief Insp. Rodolfo Fateg last Sept. 3.
Saculles said the marijuana
plants were planted in a one-hectare plantation. The PNP was not able to arrest the cultivator
of said plants.
Earlier, police forces uprooted
and destroyed about 6,600 full-grown
marijuana plants and 400 seedling in Sitio
Batu, Barangay Tulludan in Tinoc last month with the DDB estimated value of
P1,336,000.
Saculles said the success of the
anti-illegal drugs operation was conducted with help from residents and
barangay officials of Tinoc.
The provincial police director
also disclosed that also on Sept.
3, the 11th top most wanted person of
Lagawe town was captured by joint forces from the municipal and provincial
police offices led by Police Senior Inspectors Kenneth Pugong and
AngelitoPallaya.
Samuel Cabbigat, 42, was arrested
in his residence at Diadi, Nueva Vizcaya by virtue of warrant of arrest issued
by Judge Jose GodofredoNaui of Regional Trial Court Branch 14 in 2005 for the
crime of homicide.
He was committed to the Bureau of
Jail Management and Penology at Tiger Hill in Kiangan, Ifugao the following
day.
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