40 drug personalities arrested, illegal drugs seized
The intensified anti-illegal drug campaign in the Cordillera yielded over 23.4-million worth of illegal drugs confiscated while 40 individuals were arrested in a series of police operations.
Among the 40 individuals arrested, two were recently apprehended in a buy bust operation. Ian Terry Ladyong Olat, a resident of Umangil St., Dagupan West, Tabuk City was apprehended on the afternoon of February 29, 2020 at Francisco, Dagupan West, Tabuk City, Kalinga while Philip Louie C. Peralta was cornered at Zone 4, Bangued, Abra on the night of February 28, 2020.
Along with the arrest of Olat is the confiscation of Php1,000.00 buy bust money, motorcycle key, one Oppo cellular phone, and one small sachet containing suspected shabu with DDB value of Php925.48. On the other hand, Peralta yielded three (3) sachets containing suspected shabu, Php2,000.00 boodle money, Php 5,520.00 cash money, a swiss knife, and a motorcycle.
Likewise, marijuana eradication which was aggressively conducted resulted in the uprooting and destruction of Php23,201,300 worth of marijuana plants and the filing of cases against four identified cultivators.
Benguet Police Provincial Office (BPPO) initiated the most number of eradication with 11 operations thereby destroying marijuana plants having a total value of Php21,041,300.00. Moreover, Mtn. Province PPO eradicated marijuana plants with a Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) value of Php2,160,000.
As an overall accomplishment, a total of 44 successful police operations resulted in the arrest of 40 drug suspects and the seizure of 68 sachets of suspected shabu, 2 sachets of marijuana, 30 ML of marijuana oil, 3 marijuana tubes, 6 marijuana bricks, 68,924 marijuana plants, 2,100 seedlings, 9,500 marijuana stalks and 46.51 kgs of marijuana with an overall total DDB value of Php23,422,598.44.00.**
