Published April 24, 2021, 3:35 PM
SADANGA, Mountain Province – Two tourists from Manila were arrested after were caught with more than P3 million worth of dried marijuana in a police checkpoint in Sitio Ampawelin, Poblacion, this town, Friday.
Police Regional Office-Cordillera chief Police Brig. Gen. Ronald Lee identified the suspects as Louigie Erguiza Param and Bernard Hope Poyaoan Bravo II, both 22-years-old and residents of Sta. Mesa, Manila.
Lee said that prior to their arrest, the Sadanga Municipal Police Station received a tip about marijuana bricks being transported from Kalinga.
Immediately, coordination was made with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Mountain Province and nearby police units for the establishment of a checkpoint in Sitio Ampawilen where they flagged down a black Toyota sedan.
(photo from Benguet PPO)
Police Regional Office Cordillera (PROCOR) Information Officer Capt. Marnie Abellanida said a total of 99,620 fully grown marijuana plants worth P20.1 million were destroyed in eight marijuana plantation sites in the towns of Bakun and Kibungan.
Just last month, operatives uprooted nearly P20-million worth of marijuana plants in those same towns.
In Kibungan, 62,170 fully grown marijuana plants, 125 kilos of marijuana seedlings, and 30 kilos of dried marijuana stalks, estimated to be worth P16.039 million, were eradicated by the Benguet Provincial Police Office (PPO).
Then in a separate operation in Bakun town, operatives of the Benguet PPO discovered 16,150 fully grown marijuana plants, with an estimated value of P3.23 million, in different sites in Barangay Kayapa. These, too, were uprooted and burned.
Published January 14, 2021, 12:21 PM
MOUNTAIN PROVINCE – The people of Sadanga town hailed the groundbreaking ceremony for the second phase of the construction of a 320-meter long footbridge dubbed as the “Bridge of Peace” in Poblacion, Sadanga, Mountain Province.
BRIDGE OF PEACE PROCOR Director Brig. Gen.R’win Pagkalinawan, Sadanga Mayor Gabino Gangganan, and other officials lead the capsule laying ceremony for the construction of the “Bridge of Peace” in Sadanga, Mountain Province. (Photo by PROCOR)
Police Regional Office-Cordillera (PROCOR) director Brig. Gen. R’win Pagkalinawan and Sadanga Mayor Gabino Gangganan led the groundbreaking and capsule laying ceremony for the “Bridge of Peace” last January 8.