5 nabbed in Cordillera for illegal drugs; P600-K marijuana burned

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Five drug suspects were arrested even as P612,000 worth of marijuana plants were destroyed by police last week in different parts of the Cordillera.

In this capital town, Alexander Chavez Gucilatar, 45, driver, was arrested Monday morning at Barangay Puguis while Teofilo Nabadang Abellera, was apprehended at Kabildatan, Barangay Zone 7, Bangued, Abra in the afternoon.

Confiscated from Gucilatar were one sachet of suspected shabu,

P3,000 and one mobile phone while two sachets containing suspected shabu and P1,520 and cellphone were seized from Abellera. 

 In Baguio City,a certain Kimberly Anne Alvar Soriano, 42, was apprehended fronting Milan Building Padre Zamora Street on Sept. 20, 2019, while Erick Catalla Festejo was apprehended along Zone 3, Actividad, Economia Street, Bangued,  Abra on Sept. 19.

Confiscated from Soriano were sachet containing suspected shabu worth P1,000 while three sachets containing suspected shabu, P1,000, Redmi cellphone and other drug paraphernalia were seized from Festejo.

Still in Baguio City, a 17 year old minor, student of AL’s and a resident of Crystal Cave, was taken into custody on Sept. 19, after he was caught at AL's Building, Military Cut-Off in possession of marijuana.

Meanwhile, a total of P612,000 worth of marijuana plants were destroyed and burned during marijuana eradication drives on Monday. 

At Sitio Bacbacan, Barangay Poblacion, Kibungan, Benguet, some 300 seedlings of marijuana plants were discovered in a 60 square meter lot with an estimated Dangerous Drug Board value of P12,000.

These were uprooted while 3,000 fully grown marijuana plants discovered in plantation with an estimated DDB value of P600,000 were destroyed in Barangay Babanoy, Tanudan, Kalinga.