Marijuana bricks confiscated, MJ plantation plants destroyed

TABUK CITY, Kalinga – Police confiscated eight marijuana bricks worth P200,000 and destroyed a plantation planted with the illegal hemp in the province last week.

A police report said a passenger jeep bound to Tabuk, owned and driven by a certain Daniel Ramires, 38 of PoblacionTinglayan, Kalinga was flagged down  Purok 5, Bulanao, Tabuk  by operatives of the 3^rd Maneuver Company-Regional Public Safety Battalion and other police personnel led by led by Insp. Joseph Paulo Bayongasan .        The report said police found carton labeled “downy” under the passenger seat containing eight pieces of dried marijuana bricks weighing eight kilos valued  at P200,000 and wrapped in a newspaper.  

In a separate incident, elements of the 3^rd Maneuver Company-Regional Public Safety Battalion based at Talaca, Agbannawag, Tabuk led by Senior Insp. John Bangcawayan Cayat Jr., while conducting patrol at SitioPacac, Agbannawag in Tabuk on August 22, spotted a marijuana plantation with around 1,200 fully-grown marijuana plants and seedlings valued at P240,000.

The illegal plants were uprooted and destroyed on site while samples were brought to the Kalinga provincial police office.

No cultivator was arrested during the operation.