MARIJUANA BRICKS -- Police make an inventory of the 49 bricks of dried marijuana leaves, weighing around 49,000 grams, with an estimated value of P5,880,000, which were recovered at the vicinity of Sitio Jangayoy, Barangay Dangoy, Lubuagan, Kalinga on Nov. 20. (Photo from PNP Lubuagan)
LUBUAGAN,Kalinga -- Police here recovered marijuana bricks found along the national highway in the vicinity of Jangayoy, Barangay Dangoy, Lubuagan, Kalinga, on Monday, Nov. 20.
Col. Freddie Lazona, provincial director of Kalinga Provincial Police Office, said personnel of the 2nd Kalinga Provincial Mobile Force Company received information that a male rider of a sport type XR 150 abandoned an army duffle bag in the vicinity of Jangayoy, Dangoy, Lubuagan, Kalinga.
Upon receipt of the information, the operatives proceeded to the area and found and recovered an army duffle bag along the national highway that was partly covered with leaves and branches of trees and containing suspected marijuana bricks.
An onsite inventory yielded 49 bricks of alleged dried marijuana leaves weighing around 49,000 grams and with an estimated value of P5,880,000.
The recovered marijuana bricks were brought to Lubuagan MPS for proper documentation and will be brought to the Kalinga Provincial Forensic Unit (PFU) for examination.