CEBU CITY – A former overseas Filipino worker (OFW) and her cousin were arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Tisa here on Thursday night, Dec. 1. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Central Visayas (PDEA 7) identified the suspects as Maria Corazon Caburnay and Teodulo Canoy, a...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) needs more manpower in order to become more effective and efficient in running after illegal drugs syndicates operating in the country, its former head said. As a multi-billion peso illegal operation, former PDEA director general Wilkins Villanueva said...
The administration of President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr. officially launched on Saturday, Nov. 26, the Buhay Ay Ingatan, Droga Ayawan (BIDA), a coordinated anti-illegal drugs program which is described as more holistic in approach. Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) called on the public Friday, Nov. 25, to help the government put an end to the country’s illegal drug woes by supporting the "Buhay Ingatan, Droga’y Ayawan" (BIDA) program. DILG Sec. Benjamin "Benhur" Abalos Jr. (File photo courtesy of...
BACOLOD CITY – An overseas Filipino worker (OFW) was arrested and yielded suspected shabu weighing 16 grams valued at P108,800 in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Enclaro, Binalbagan, Negros Occidental on Monday, Nov. 21. AN overseas Filipino worker was arrested in a buy-bust operation and...
Authorities have destroyed marijuana totaling P4,827,500 in the boundaries of Ilocos Sur and Benguet. Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Region 1 (Ilocos) Director Ronald Allan DG Ricardo said that they uprooted more or less 11,200 fully grown marijuana plants and seized 2,000 marijuana seedlings...
The President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. is bent on continuing the tough anti-llegal drug stance of the previous administration. Surigao del Norte 2nd district Rep. Robert Ace Barbers (left) and President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (MANILA BULLETIN) Thus, said Surigao del Norte 2nd...
Six suspected drug pushers were arrested on Friday afternoon, Nov. 18, during a buy-bust operation in Mabalacat City, Pampanga, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said. Nabbed were Maria Liwayway Quiambao, 52; Jason Alamodin, 24; Jasper Tabulo, 25; Margie Ayson, 48; Vanessa Placiente,...
Muntinlupa Mayor Ruffy Biazon congratulated the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) for seizing 20 kilos of suspected shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) worth P136 million and dismantling a drug laboratory in a house inside the exclusive Ayala Alabang Village in Muntinlupa on Friday, Nov....
Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) seized on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 12, some P3.4 million worth of shabu in a buy-bust operation in Quezon City. In a report released on Nov. 13, the PDEA said the suspect Mansawi Lala, 38, was arrested after selling 500 grams of shabu to an...
CABANATUAN CITY -- The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Nueva Ecija Provincial Office together with the local police nabbed three drug suspects inside a makeshift drug den in Barangay Lourdes in this city on Friday afternoon, Nov. 11. The suspects were identified as Vergel Ignacio, Joseph...
Fifteen drug suspects were arrested by anti-narcotics authorities after they allegedly yielded P89,700 worth of methamphetamine hydrochloride or "shabu" during a buy-bust operation in Mabalacat City, Pampanga on Thursday night, Nov. 10. PDEA photo In a statement released Friday, Nov. 11, the...
