By Leilanie G. Adriano
Staff reporter
CAMP BGEN OSCAR M
FLORENDO- The stepped-up efforts of the Police Regional Office 1 (PRO1)
and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Regional Office 1 (PDEA-RO1) to locate
and destroy marijuana plantations across the region scored after the
destruction of P6,640,500.00 million worth of marijuana plants in various
plantation sites at Barangay Licungan in Sugpon, Ilocos Sur during the two-day marijuana
eradication operation on October 22-23, 2014.
Police Chief Supt. Roman A.
Felix, PRO1 regional director, said the operatives from Ilocos Sur Police
Provincial Office (ISPPO); Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency 1 (PDEA1),
composite intelligence team of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the
Sugpon police destroyed 24,770 fully grown marijuana plants, and 34,100 marijuana
seedlings planted in scattered plantation sites with an estimated land area of
4,285 square meters.
“Based on the standard value
set by the Dangerous Drug Board (DDB), the uprooted MJ plants and seedlings to
include the confiscated 30.5 kilograms dried MJ leaves had an estimated value
of P6,640,500.00 million,” Mr. Felix added.
The uprooted MJ plants were
burned at the plantation sites after documentation by the PDEA-RO1 personnel in
the presence of barangay officials. Samples and pieces of evidence were brought
to PDEA-RO1 in City of San Fernando, La Union for proper disposition.
Mr. Felix further stressed
that series of intensified anti-illegal drugs operations will be implemented
all over the region in cooperation with other anti-illegal drugs teams of other
law enforcement agencies to ensure the reduction of supply and demand of
illegal drugs especially marijuana.
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