Police uproot marijuana plants in Misamis Oriental

MISAMIS ORIENTAL, May 24 (PNA) -– Police operatives have uprooted 11 ‘Marijuana” plants in the outskirt village in the municipality of Opol as local officials heightened the fight against illegal drugs in the area.

Town police chief Inspector Alwin Baclao said that the Marijuana plants were illegally planted to separate areas in the farming village of Bagocboc during a raid of the town’s hinterland villages.

Baclao said that the police have obtained a search warrant from the Regional Trial Court in Misamis Oriental to raid farms and villages in Opol believed to be illegally planted to “Marijuana” plants.

He said that the local police will continue to monitor the town’s hinterlands for possible cultivation of Marijuana in the farms and villages.

Town Mayor Maximo Seno said that his administration will not tolerate the proliferation of illegal drugs in Opol and instructed local law enforcers to conduct patrols and raids whenever necessary.

Seno warned those engaged in the illegal cultivation of the Marijuana of the police continued operations.

He said that he has also instructed the police to put up an outpost in Barangay Barra, one of Opol’s largest villages, where the drug trafficking is reportedly rampant.

“I ordered the municipal police to put up an outpost and coordinate with the barangay police to run after suspected drug traffickers in barangay Barra,” Seno said.

The municipal police command has admitted that barangay Barra is one of the barangays in Opol where “transaction on illegal drugs is noticeable.” “These drugs reportedly come from Iligan City,” Baclao said.

He said the local police operatives will continue to conduct surveillances, patrols and raids in barangay Barra to eradicate drug trafficking in the area.(PNA)
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