P600K WORTH OF CANNABIS TORCHED IN BENGUET

May 17, 2024 Police Patrol Provincial

BAKUN, Kibungan

Benguet policemen seized and torched, P620,000 worth of marijuana plants in Kibungan, and neighboring Bakun town on Monday. In Kibungan, local policemen, Benguet Provincial Intelligence Unit (PIU), Benguet Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit, Cordillera Regional Intelligence Division, PDEA-CAR, and barangay officials discovered a total of 2,500 pieces fully grown marijuana plants reaching Php500,000.00 from a single plantation site in Sitio Ubod, Brgy Tacadang. In Bakun, local policemen also joined by operatives from the Provincial Intelligence Unit, Cordillera Regional Intelligence Unit-14; and PDEA-CAR found a total of 600 pieces of full-grown marijuana plants worth
Php120,000.00 from a plantation site in Sitio Sayangan, Brgy Kayapa. After properly documenting the haul, all the marijuana were torched to the ground.

Artemio A. Dumlao/ABN