LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — The anti-illegal drugs operations of the Police Regional Office Cordillera (Procor) netted PHP6-million worth of marijuana plants and four suspected shabu pushers aged 17 to 22 in the first week of May alone.
Procor Chief Supt. Edward Carranza said Monday 30,200 fully marijuana plants were destroyed in Tinglayan town, Kalinga province from May 1 to 6, while three teenagers and a 22-year-old criminology student from Abra province were arrested and placed behind bars after two separate buy-bust operations.
Carranza said the destroyed marijuana grass had a street value of PHP6 million.
Nabbed in the buy-bust operations, meanwhile, were identified as Paul Panganiban, 22; John Brixxe Brioso Cortez, 19; Lester John Agustin Garcia, 18; and a 17-year-old boy, all from the capital town of Bangued.
Dacalan, a criminology student, was arrested in Sinapangan, Zone 6 in a separate buy-bust operation, where law enforcers confiscated three heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets containing suspected shabu and buy-bust money worth PHP1,500.
The three other suspects were nabbed in Barangay Macray of the capital town and seized from them was one heat-sealed transparent plastic sachet containing suspected shabu and buy-bust money worth PHP250. (Primo Agatep/PNA)
