KAPANGAN, Benguet – Police uprooted and burned marijuana here worth P5.5 million on Jan. 30 even as a taxi driver was nabbed for having in his possession shabu in Baguio City.
Kapangan police led by Senior Insp. Onofre Willie and personnel of the Regional Public Safety Battalion eradicated 24,600 fully grown marijuana plants on seven sites at Sitio Laoangan, Barangay Gadang.
The operation was carried following a tip coming from loal folk that marijuana plants were growing in the s area. No cultivator was arrested.
Meanwhile, night of Jan. 30, a buy-bust operation was carried out by SPO3 Raymond B Tacio of the Regional Anti-illegalDrugs Special Operation Task Group beside the Caltex Gasoline Station, Legarda Road in Baguio City.
The operation resulted to the arrest of Arsenio D. Defeo, 49, taxi driver, native of Camarines Norte and resident of Central Fairview, Baguio.
Confiscated from Defeo was a plastic sachet containing white crystalline substance suspected to be Methamphetamine Hydrochloride, locally known as shabu weighing 0.3 grams and valued at P1,800.
The Suspect and the evidence were brought to Police Station 5 for proper documentation.
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