Cops raid another marijuana plantation in South Cotabato, uproot 300 plants

TAMPAKAN, South Cotabato- For the second time in less than aweek, members of police unit here uprooted more than 300 marijuana plants in an abandoned plantation in the village of Danlag, police said.Senior Inspector Harold Cornel, Tampakan town police chief, said the fully grown marijuana plants (also called as marijuana hills) were found in Sitio (sub-village) Datal Biao, situated in the hinterlands of Tampakan at about 9 a.m. Monday.As in previous operations, police only found the plants and not its planters. Unfortunately, the cultivators were not around during the raid, Cornel told DXOM-AM Radyo Bida. He could only surmised that the cultivators noticed the approaching police officers who need to hurdle uphill climb to reach the site.Cornel said a civilian informed a village official of Datal Biao about the existence of a vast plantation. The official, he said, informed the local PNP.Cornel then formed a team and proceeded to the plantation site where they discovered the marijuana plants. Six days earlier, the Tampakan PNP also uprooted 278 marijuana plants in the village where the prohibited plants were found Monday.The operation was part of the PNP intensified drive against illegal drugs.