CEBU, Philippines - Joint operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-7 and the 2nd Air Division of the Philippine Air Force yesterday uprooted 1,700 stalks of marijuana during a raid in seven different plantations at sitio Basiao, Barangay Tubod in Badian town.
Lawyer Mario Licen of PDEA-7 said that they started the operation at 3 a.m. until daybreak.
Licen said they scoured seven plantations and finished with close to 2,000 stalks of marijuana. They, however, failed to catch any cultivator in seven plantations that they searched.
"Lisod man gud kaayo na sila madakpan sir kay mobiya ra man na sila inig human og tanom," Licen said.
Licen could not give an estimate of the total haul but said that a kilo of dried marijuana leaves has a street value of P3,500 to P5,000.
"Ang usa ka kilo sa uga nga marijuana worth na og three thousand five hundred pesos to five thousand pesos kung ibaligya na," he said. (FREEMAN)