Cops destroy P1-M MJ in Kalinga farms

GRIM ACCIDENT. These trucks collided dawn of June 8 at Bontiwey, Poblacion, Tuba, Benguet. Six persons were killed and four others injured in the accident. (Photo courtesy of Col. Elmer Ragay)

 By Peter A. Balocnit

CITY OF TABUK -- Police uprooted 2,500 fully grown marijuana plants worth around P1 million here at Sitio Ileb, Nambaran in two separate operations on June 6.  

The marijuana plants valued at P500,000 under the Dangerous Drug Board (DDB)  were burned and destroyed at site by personnel of  the 1st Kalinga Provincial Mobile Force Co. led by Lt. Col. Joseph Eujie Almaquer.
A police report shows said operatives of 1st KPMFC while on patrol chanced upon a marijuana plantation with  about  1,000 fully grown marijuana plants valued at P200,000.

On the same day, the team discovered another plantation with  about  1,500 fully grown marijuana plants valued at P300,000.

Kalinga police headed by Col. Davy Vicente Limmong commended personnel of 1st KPMFC for the eradication operation. “This operation shows how police are relentless in their anti-illegal drugs operation. This serves as a warning to the cultivators to stop their illegal activities," he said. -- PAB-PIA CAR, Kalinga