CAMP DANGWA, Benguet — As a result of their continuous anti-illegal drug operations, the Benguet Provincial Police Office seized illegal drugs worth P11,108,040.00 and arrested a Street Level Individual (SLI) on November 28.

Col. Joseph Bayongasan, provincial director said, some 22,900 pieces of Fully Grown Marijuana Plants (FGMJP) and 50,000 grams of dried marijuana leaves with fruiting tops with a total Standard Drug Price of P10,580,000.00 were discovered across four marijuana plantation sites in Barangay Badeo, Kibungan.

He said, the operation was successful with the joint efforts of operatives from the 2nd Benguet Provincial Mobile Force Company, Kibungan Municipal Police Station (MPS), Provincial Intelligence Unit (PIU) and Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit (PDEU) of Benguet Police Provincial Office (PPO), Regional Intelligence Division (RID) of PRO-CAR, and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Cordillera Administrative Region (PDEA-CAR).

In Bakun, four marijuana plantation sites planted with 2,630 pieces of FGMJP with an SDP of P526,000.00 were discovered in Barangay Kayapa by the joint operatives of Bakun MPS, PDEU, and PIU of Benguet PPO, and the Land Transport Interdiction Unit of PDEA-CAR.

Bayongasan said, these marijuana plants were all documented and destroyed onsite, while few samples were taken for submission to the Provincial Forensic Unit-CAR for qualitative testing.

In La Trinidad, a 29-year-old male listed as an SLI was arrested after operatives seized 0.3 grams of suspected shabu with an SDP of P2,040.000 during the buy-bust operation conducted by La Trinidad MPS, PDEU and PIU of Benguet PPO, RID of PRO-CAR, Regional Intelligence Unit-14, and PDEA-CAR in Barangay Betag.

The arrested suspect and the confiscated pieces of evidence were brought to the custody of La Trinidad MPS for documentation and proper disposition. The suspect will be facing charges for violation of R.A. 9165, also known as the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.