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...
Five persons were arrested and nearly P2 million worth of fake cigarettes and smuggled goods were seized by the authorities during a joint operation on Thursday, March 26, in Barangay San Jose, Plaridel, Bulacan. The Plaridel police, the Provincial Intelligence Bureau in Bulacan, and Philip Morris...
GUMACA, Quezon – The municipal government is strictly implementing ordinances against smoking and vaping in public places here, Mayor Webster Letargo said. Letargo ordered police and local authorities to enforce smoke-free ordinances and Republic Act No. 11900 (Vaporized Nicotine and Non-Nicotine...
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...
Teenagers as young as 13 to 15 years old have already tried vape products in different flavors such as cookies and cream, and even pistachio. Health experts disclosed this during a hearing of the Senate Committee on Health and Demography on the various pending measures that sought to either ban or...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has intercepted a shipment of undeclared cigarettes worth more than P230 million during a recent operation conducted at the Port of Batangas. In a statement on Saturday, the BOC said a physical examination of the container on March 5 led to the discovery of 637 cases of...
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...
A motorcycle rider was arrested after attempting to evade a checkpoint and found with marijuana and cigarette sticks of suspected tuklaw (black cigarettes) in Antipolo City, Rizal on Thursday, Feb. 12. The Antipolo City Component Police Station (Antipolo CCPS) said the suspect, identified as...
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...
CEBU CITY – Three persons were arrested and more than P8-million illegal drugs were seized in the cities of Mandaue City and Cebu City. Packs of suspected shabu valued at P8.1 million were recovered by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Central Visayas (PDEA-7) on Thursday...
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...
