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By Leilanie G. Adriano
Staff reporter
LAOAG CITY—Law enforcers from different units uprooted and later burned PHP4.3 million worth of marijuana during an anti-illegal drugs operation at Brgy. Tulgao in Tinglayan, Kalinga on October 6, 2018.
Led by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation along with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and Philippine National Police from Regions 1, 2, and the Cordillera Administrative Region, the fully-grown marijuana plants were estimated to be worth PHP 4,350,000.
Agent Gerald Butele of NBI Laoag and team leader of Operation Green Viking said they found five plantation sites with an aggregate estimated land area of 2,350 square meters at Sitio Balay, Barangay Tulgao East and West in Tinglayan town.
“The successful operation is still in line of the government’s intensified drive to eradicate prohibited drugs including that of marijuana,” said Mr. Butele citing their troop stayed in the mountains for five days to uproot the marijuana plants located on steep portions of the mountains and these were difficult to access,” he said citing no one was arrested during the operation.