MJ weeds torch into ashes in Sarangani

Intensified MJ weeds eradication - Right, PSI Arman C. Tuban, local police station chief, silently observes the police and anti-drug agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA-12), as both parties’ evaluates the full number of devastated marijuana weeds during the Sept. 30 conducted raids in a suspected MJ plantation spot in sitio Kimlawis, a remote tribe-occupied small village located in Barangay Malabod, Sarangani Province. PDEA authorities estimated the full street value of destroyed illegal plants to more or less, P673, 200.00. (Isagani Palma -MIO. Photo courtesy of Malungon Police Station).

Narcs, PNP braces against MJ weed growers– Photo shows a unified team of local police and PDEA-12 agents while storming on Sept 30, a suspected plantation site of Marijuana weeds in sitio Kimlawis, a mountainous portion that is predominately filled by the IPs in Brgy. Malabod, Malungon, Sarangani Province. PCI Arman C. Tuban, MPS chief, said the raid has resulted in the demolition of some P.673M-worth marijuana plants. (Isagani Palma-MIO. Photo courtesy of Malungon Police Station).

Malungon, Sarangani – A composite team of cops and PDEA agents torched some P.673Million worth of Marijuana weeds during an intensified anti-drug operation in sitio Kimlawis, a secluded tribe-occupied small village that is situated in Barangay Malabod, Malungon, Sarangani Province.

In a forwarded report Sunday (October 4), P/ Sr. Insp. Arman C. Tuban, the local police station chief, said the Sept. 30 operation that was jointly carried out by the local police, Philippine Drugs Enforcement Agency-12, Sarangani Police Public Safety Company and the provincial police investigations bureau has resulted in the devastation of more or less 1, 000 pieces of MJ seedlings and 552 pieces of fully grown illegal weeds that were simultaneously discovered at a hilly and forested portion of the above stated place.

Turban said authorities were in the foremost, out for a buy bust operation against one alias Bal, but unfortunately the subject has able to elude arrest after sensing the presence of approaching lawmen.

“We are conducting further investigation in the area when being informed by a concerned citizen regarding the appropriate location of suspected illegal weeds that sporadically grew (if not intentionally planted and being taken cared of) only more or less a hundred meters away from the operation site. And it was subsequently found out to be an A-1 report, " Tuban said.

He said most of the uprooted MJ weeds were torched right on site, while the anti-drug operatives brought with them two small sacks weighing more or less 8 kilos of cannabis sativa that will supposedly be used for exhibit, examination, and later be held for proper disposition at the PDEA-12 regional headquarters in General Santos City.

In a telephone interview with one among the PDEA12 lawyers, Atty. Tessa Constantino estimated the street value of the eradicated ‘bad grasses’ to be more or less P673, 200.00.

Local government officials here said the latest is simply among the chain of operations that both the local police and PDEA-12 authorities have accumulated, aside from the earlier launched anti-drugs campaign, which resulted in the total destruction and burning of several million worth MJ plants at the triangular boundaries of Sarangani, South Cotabato and Davao Del Sur. (MALUNGON INFORMATION OFFICE/ PNP MAC).