Cops Raid House Of Abrenian Wanted For Drugs, P20M MJ Plantation Raided Again In Kalinga

BAGUIO CITY (August 29, 2020) – Policemen raided the house of  a suspected big-time drug pusher dawn Friday in Dolores town in Abra and seized at least four sachets of shabu and a pistol.

Mark Dick Trondillo, 39, alias “Madik”, who according to Cordillera police director Brig. Gen. RWin Pagkalinawan, is included in the PDEA drug watch list and number 7 “High Value Individual” (HVI) in the Cordillera region, was taken to the police station after four plastic sachets of suspected to be methamphetamine hydrochloride, an aluminum foil, a Colt caliber 45 pistol with serial number 550997 inserted with a magazine containing 7 bullets, another magazine for caliber 45 firearm with 7 bullets on it and 5 more bullets for the same pistol, were found at his home in barangay Calumbaya.

The house of Emmanuel Marquez alias Noel, at sitio Ducam, also in Dolores, and according to Brig. Gen. Pagkalinawan is number 8 in the HVIs in the Cordillera and also listed by the PDEA , was also raided but cops found nothing.

While Kalinga policemen joined in by PDEA agents again overran a hectare of marijuana plantations also Friday morning seizing at least 100,000 fully grown marijuana plants at barangay Loccong, Tinglayan.

Pagkalinawan pegged the torched marijuana to reach P20,000,000.00, though no one was caught in the area supposedly to be charged for cultivating the illegal plant.

Pagkalinawan while citing successes in the heightening war of the government against illegal drugs, specifically marijuana cultivators and illegal drug personalities in the highland region, acknowledged the effort of the drug abuse councils in the barangays.  “Drug affected communities now realize than an effective BADAC can cleanse their neighborhood.”

At least 96 percent of all 27 local government units in Abra, Pagkalinawan said, have officially declared marijuana cultivators and drug dealers including users as “persona non grata”, while 100 percent of all LGUS in Apayao did the same.

Baguio City (129 barangays), Kalinga (9 towns including Tabuk City), 10 towns including the provincial government of Mt. Province, all of 13 towns in Benguet and 11 towns in Ifugao also declared illicit marijuana growers and drug traders as unwelcome.

Artemio A. Dumlao

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