COTABATO CITY: 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.Authorities also discovered and uprooted 15,000 marijuana plants in a 500-square-meter land area in Sitio Mangal-Mangal, Barangay Masjid Punjungan.Meanwhile, in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte on Monday, PDEA operatives, backed by police and military forces, arrested five men during a buy-b ust in Barangay Salimbao.Seized from them were shabu in several plastic sachets with a street market value of PHP102,000, buy-bust money, mobile phones, and a motorbike.PDEA operatives also shut down an alleged drug den in Barangay Rosary Heights 10, arrested four persons, and seized over PHP170,000 worth of shabu.Among the arrested suspects was a 61-year-old woman suspected of maintaining the drug den. Anti-narcotics agents seized 58 sachets of shabu, drug paraphernalia, and identification cards.Source: Philippines News Agency