CEBU CITY, Philippines -- Two farmers, who turned to planting marijuana plants from their usual crops of vegetables because they believed they could earn more from them, learned the hard way the
By: Alven Marie A. Timtim - Reporter/CDN DigitalThe Balamban Police and First Provincial Mobile Force Company of Cebu Police Provincial Office uproot and burn marijuana plants and arrested two vegetable farmers during an operation in Sitio Lacdon, Barangay Cabasiangan, Balamban, Cebu, at 10:30 a.m., on Friday, April 17, 2020.
One of their partner farmers, Lesbert Borres, managed to escape when he jumped off the window of the hut during the raid.He said Medio and Baguio failed to escape because we already surrounded their hut. Torres said that aside from the fully grown marijuana plants, they also confiscated sacks of dried marijuana leaves that were ready to be sold to a buyer.
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