Authorities have arrested a marijuana cultivator during an eradication operation in Oriental Mindoro, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency said on Thursday.
PDEA director general Arturo Cacdac Jr. identified the suspect as Adonis Maligo, 28, a farmer, of Sitio Malapgap, Barangay B. Del Mundo, Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro.
Cacdac said that on Mar. 5, joint elements of PDEA Regional Office 4B and Mansalay police caught Maligo in a marijuana plantation site found in a dense grassy area in Sitio Malapgap.
The operating team uprooted 14 pieces of fully-grown marijuana plants with flowering tops from the site.
A case for violation of Section 16 (Cultivation of Dangerous Drugs), Article II, of Republic Act 9165, or The Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, will be filed in court against Maligo. He is now detained at Mansalay police station. - Dennis Carcamo