The Eastern Police District (EPD) seized smuggled cigarettes worth P464,820 during a series of operations in local stores in San Juan and Marikina Cities on Friday, April 10. The Marikina City Police Station’s Intelligence Section, together with the District Intelligence Division (DID), District...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Bureau of Customs-Port of Zamboanga destroyed more than 5,000 cases of smuggled cigarettes worth P266 million in a waste management facility here on Tuesday, April 7. The condemned items consisted of 5,069 master cases, 2,620 reams, and 32 packs of assorted smuggled...
Cigarette smugglers would have hit a jackpot way better than what a lotto biggest prize could offer. But the P2 billion market price of smuggled and illegally-manufactured cigarettes suddenly disappeared after the Philippine National Police (PNP) started busting their distribution networks. PNP...
COTABATO CITY – Acting on a tip, police recovered several unattended boxes of imported cigarettes, estimated to be worth P12.8 million, on the coastline of Malabang, Lanao del Sur on Thursday. Police Col. Caezar Cabuhat, Lanao del Sur police provincial director, said in a statement on Friday that...
COTABATO CITY – Police officers in Matanog, Maguindanao del Norte, on Tuesday intercepted an attempt to smuggle P6.4-million worth of imported cigarettes hidden by two men inside a cement mixer truck. Police Brig. Gen. Jaysen de Guzman, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous...
More than P70-million worth of smuggled tobacco products were seized during a police operation in a warehouse in San Simon, Pampanga, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Tuesday. The warehouse in Barangay San Pablo Libutad was reported by a netizen a few hours after Interior and Local...
CAVITE – Authorities confiscated more than P240,000 worth of smuggled cigarettes in Silang, Alfonso, Naic, and Maragondon on Monday, Feb. 9. The operations were conducted by the Provincial Intelligence Unit of the Cavite Provincial Police Office, in coordination with the Bureau of Internal...
CALASIAO, Pangasinan – Police recovered smuggled cigarettes valued at over P1.1 million and arrested two individuals in an entrapment operation in Barangay Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City, this province, on Saturday. The Dagupan City Police Office reported that the suspects, both drivers, are a...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Zamboanga City Maritime Police Station seized 1,106 reams of smuggled cigarettes valued at P1.5 million here on Thursday, Jan. 22. The contraband was recovered from an unidentified passenger during port security operations and random baggage inspections. These are in line...
MALASIQUI, Pangasinan – Police intercepted a truck containing boxes of suspected smuggled cigarettes worth over P8 million in a checkpoint in Labrador, Pangasinan on Wednesday night. In an interview on Thursday, Police Major Divina Albino, chief of the Police Regional Office-1 information office,...
CEBU CITY – Cigarettes deemed illegal for not having the required graphic health warning labels were seized in Madridejos town, Cebu province on Wednesday, Jan. 21. A man, identified as Anthony, was arrested during the operation after he was caught in the act of selling the contraband estimated...
BATANGAS CITY – Police discovered P1-billion worth of suspected smuggled cigarettes loaded in 14 40-foot container vans in Sitio Singko, Barangay Balete, this city, on Wednesday morning. Lawmen recovered the contraband after tracking a stolen red Hyundai Accent with license plates NGN-6169...
