CALAMBA CITY, Laguna – Police recovered smuggled cigarettes valued at P5.1 million and arrested two suspected smugglers on May 18 in Barangay Canlubang here. The suspects were identified as Jon and Cris from Rosario, Batangas. Recovered from them were 79 master cases of cigarettes with an...
CAMP MIGUEL MALVAR, Batangas City – Police confiscated smuggled cigarettes valued at P3.5 million and arrested a 32-year-old woman in an entrapment operation in Barangay Guimalas, Balayan, this province, on Tuesday, May 19. Police Col. Oliver Ebora, Batangas police director, identified the...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Some P526-million worth of smuggled cigarettes were intercepted by the Philippine Navy in Western Mindanao in two separate operations last week. The first operation took place last Wednesday afternoon, May 13, when Navy personnel observed a suspicious vessel loaded with cargo....
BACOLOD CITY – The Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR) intercepted smuggled cigarettes valued at P40 million and arrested 10 suspected smugglers in Sitio Labugon, Barangay Nagbo-alao, Basay, Negros Oriental Saturday night, May 16. Police Lt. Col. Joem Malong, PRO-NIR...
CEBU CITY – More than 1,000 boxes of allegedly smuggled cigarettes were seized at the reclamation area in Mandaue City, Cebu. The tobacco products were loaded in 20-foot and 40-foot container vans abandoned at dawn on Tuesday, May 12. Capt. Jerome Lozada, station commander of Coast Guard Station...
BACOLOD CITY – The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) discovered another warehouse allegedly used in manufacturing illegal cigarettes in Purok Pulang Duta, Barangay Lag-asan, Bago City, Negros Occidental on Tuesday, May 12. A suspected caretaker, 29-year-old Jo, from Barangay...
BUTUAN CITY – Smuggled cigarettes worth P7 million were intercepted by personnel of the Police Regional Office in Caraga region (PRO-13) during an operation on Thursday in Purok 3, Barangay Cahayagan, Carmen, Agusan del Norte. A concerned citizen 's tip about suspicious cargo unloading from...
Combined maritime forces from the Philippine Navy (PN) and Philippine National Police (PNP) intercepted a motor banca carrying P52 million worth of undocumented cigarettes during a patrol operation off the coast of Governor Generoso, Davao Oriental, the PN reported on Sunday, May 3. The joint...
Gen. Jose Melencio C. Nartatez, Jr., chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), vowed to sustain the intensified intelligence-gathering against illegal cigarettes following the raids in Negros island that led to the confiscation of almost P800 million worth of tobacco products and manufacturing...
Authorities seized P784 million worth of counterfeit cigarettes while a big syndicate operating in the Negros Island Region (NIR) with alleged links to an active police major was dismantled in another major crackdown against the illegal tobacco trade nationwide, the Department of the Interior and...
BACOLOD CITY – The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) dismantled a reported large-scale illegal cigarette manufacturing and distribution network in Negros Occidental, following the discovery of almost P800-million worth of equipment, raw materials, and packaging supplies in two...
BACOLOD CITY – Authorities arrested 14 individuals, including 10 Chinese nationals and a minor, in an illegal cigarette factory in Barangay Calumangan, Bago City, Negros Occidental on Tuesday, April 21. The factory was discovered during an inspection of a warehouse by the Permits and Licensing...
