COTABATO CITY, Feb. 27 -- Anti-narcotics authorities scored big in the past two days, uprooting PHP12 million worth of marijuana plants, dismantling two drug dens, and arresting nine suspects in operations in Sulu and Maguindanao.

In a report Tuesday, Director Gil Cesario Castro of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-BARMM) said a team of PDEA, police, and military personnel in Sulu seized dried marijuana leaves during a buy-bust Sunday afternoon.

Castro said the targeted personalities -Rene Onji and Amah Jul Onji-eluded arrest and left PHP6,000 worth of illegal plants during the law enforcement operation in Barangay Masjid Punjungan, Kalilangan Caluang, Sulu.

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