Cordillera cops destroy P100k worth of marijuana | Inquirer News

Cordillera cops destroy P100k worth of marijuana

/ 05:28 PM May 27, 2020

—CORDILLERA POLICE OFFICE, CAMP DANGWA

BAGUIO CITY –– The Cordillera police uprooted and destroyed marijuana worth P100,000, which were growing in plantations at the popular tourist destination Sagada town in Mountain Province and the Benguet town of Kibungan, according to Police Brig. Gen. R’win Pagkalinawan in a statement on Wednesday.

About a hundred stalks of fully grown plants, worth P20,000 were seized from a 50-square-meter lot in Palina village in Kibungan on Monday.

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The bigger haul was uncovered earlier on May 24 in Sagada’s Barangay Fedilizan, when a joint team composed of the police and soldiers from the Army’s 54th Infantry Battalion pulled out P92,000-worth of marijuana from a 60-sqm lot

The police did not say whether any farmer had been detained for the plantations. Both provinces are under general community quarantine.

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