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Monday, September 26, 2005
Team uproots marijuana in hillside Badian brgy.
ALTHOUGH “carefully” concealed among taller corn stalks, some 17,000 stalks of fully-grown marijuana plants were uprooted in a hillside barangay of Badian town at dawn last Saturday.
Police also uprooted 5,600 marijuana seedlings. However, none of the planters were arrested.
Badian Police Chief Rodrigo Orbigozo said they received information on the presence of the plants in Sitio Linut-od, Barangay Sohuton, some 15 kilometers away from the town proper.
Team
They then organized a team composed of intelligence officer SPO3 Orlando Caballero, policemen from the station, barangay tanods and members of the barangay intelligence network.
Orbigozo said the team left the police station at 2 a.m. but arrived at the site past 5 a.m.
He said the marijuana plantation was vast, but the plants were carefully concealed among taller stalks of corn.
He admitted that none of the planters were arrested, but explained that it would be difficult to do so because anyone approaching could be seen from the area and they could have fled easily.
He said they asked the residents of houses near the plantation, but none of them could give them information on who owned the plants.
Lookout
He assured they will still look for the marijuana planters.
Orbigozo said Sohuton was not known for its abundant marijuana plants.
He said they usually conduct raids in Barangays Basiao, Basak and Paton.
Police operatives often admit the difficulty in locating marijuana plantations because cultivators choose areas with almost inaccessible terrain and hide the plants under taller shrubs with thicker branches and leaves. (MEA)
(September 26, 2005 issue)
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