CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Joint police forces uprooted and burned a marijuana plantation on the slopes of Mount Balitok, Barangay Saclit, Sadanga, Mt. Province, on July 22.

According to the Regional Operations Division of PRO-Cordillera, a plantation measuring 3,000 square meters planted with 54,000 fully grown marijuana plants with a total Standard Drug Price of P10,800,000.00 was discovered in the said mountains.

Operatives immediately uprooted and burned the discovered marijuana, while a thorough investigation is currently underway and community outreach is ongoing to identify and hold accountable individuals involved in the cultivation of the said illegal plant.

This successful operation was carried out through the cooperation of operatives from the Sadanga Municipal Police Station, Provincial Intelligence Unit and Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit of the Mountain Province Police Provincial Office, Mountain Province Provincial Mobile Force Company, Regional Intelligence Division, Regional Mobile Force Battalion 15, Regional Intelligence Unit-14, and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Mountain Province.