Cops recover hundred marijuana hills in North Cotabato town

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Authorities uprooted at least 21 marijuana hills and recovered 89 additional hills the suspects had abandoned in a remote village in Aleosan, North Cotabato, on Wednesday, police reports said.Senior Inspector Edwin Abantes, chief of the Aleosan PNP, said he has dispatched a team of his operatives to Purok-8, Barangay New Panay in Aleosan, after he received tips from reliable sources that a marijuana plantation exists in the area.A saturation drive was conducted, around 330 p.m., on June 27, and discovered several abandoned marijuana hills in the site.The cops also uprooted 21 remaining marijuana hills located at Purok-9, also in Barangay New Panay.Abantes hinted the suspects or the planters could have been warned of the raid so that when the cops arrived at the site, they saw no one.The plants were immediately turned over to the headquarters of the Cotabato PNP Crime Laboratory in Kidapawan City for safekeeping, while Aleosan PNP continues with its investigation to determine those people behind the planting of marijuana in the site.