P17.4-M marijuana destroyed in Cordillera

CAMP BADO DANGWA, La Trinidad, Benguet: More than P17.4-million worth of marijuana plants were destroyed by combined police operatives and anti-narcotics agents of the Police Regional Office Cordillera during a week-long marijuana eradication operation in different parts of the Cordillera region.

Personnel of the Mountain Province Police destroyed a total of 52,800 fully grown marijuana plants valued at P13.2 million. The plants were discovered in four plantation sites in the boundaries of Tinglayan, Kalinga Province and Barangay Saclit, Sadanga in Mountain Province.