ZAMBOANGA CITY – Smuggled cigarettes valued at P12.5 million and a gun and ammunition were seized in a checkpoint in Sulu province on Wednesday, July 30. The Luuk Municipal Police Station was conducting checkpoint operations when they flagged down three vehicles suspected of transporting illegal...
A 29-year-old man has been convicted by a Quezon City court for unfair competition after pleading guilty to selling counterfeit cigarettes worth more than a million pesos, in violation of Section 168.2 in relation to Section 170 of the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines. In a ruling...
CAVITE – Authorities seized some P28 million worth of smuggled cigarettes and collared two suspects in a buy-bust operation in Trece Martires City, on Monday, July 14. Police Regional Office 4A (PRO 4A) identified the suspects as alias Jamir, a 32-year-old resident of Carmona, and alias Bayaw, a...
Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) operatives have arrested five individuals for trading P4.7-million worth of alleged illicit cigarettes during an operation in Negros Occidental. In a statement on Friday, CIDG acting Director Police Brig. Gen. Romeo Macapaz identified the suspects...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Authorities arrested two men and seized a shipment of smuggled cigarettes worth P25 million in an operation in this city on Monday morning. Police Col. Fidel Fortaleza Jr., chief of the Zamboanga City Police Office (ZCPO), identified the suspects as Vicente Garcia, 33, driver;...
BUTUAN CITY – Police seized smuggled cigarettes worth nearly P5 million in Iligan City on Wednesday, July 2. “The smuggled cigarettes were bound for distribution in Cagayan de Oro City when intercepted by personnel from the Traffic Enforcement Unit of the Iligan City Police Office (ICPO) and...
BACOLOD CITY - Authorities confiscated 149 boxes of smuggled cigarettes valued at P8.38 million here on Wednesday morning, July 2. Police Major Kent Jerek Capadosa, acting commander of the Maritime Police 4th Special Operations Unit, said police responded to a report about a suspicious vessel and...
BUTUAN CITY – Police seized smuggled cigarettes valued at more than P20 million in the coastal area of Manticao town, Misamis Oriental province, on Saturday, June 21. Police Regional Office 10-Regional Public Information Office chief Police Major Joann G. Navarro said eight suspected smugglers...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Smuggled cigarettes valued at P43 million were seized and six persons were arrested during a seaborne patrol operation in Santa Cruz Island here on Wednesday, June 18. The Second Mobile Force Company was patrolling the area when they chanced upon two motorboats with markings...
Health Secretary Ted Herbosa on Sunday, June 1, warned that vaping is more dangerous than smoking traditional cigarettes, as more young Filipinos become addicted to high-nicotine vape products under the false belief that they are safer. “Sinasabi pa nila mas-safe kaysa sa tobacco smoking. Ang...
BACOLOD CITY – Police recovered 11,450 reams of smuggled cigarettes valued at P12.8 million in Sitio Bagambang, Barangay Tiling, Cauayan, Negros Occidental on Monday, May 19. Police Capt. Reynaldo Bauden Jr., Bacolod Maritime Police Station chief, said two men were arrested for loading the...
BUTUAN CITY – Police confiscated P932,550 worth of counterfeit cigarettes and arrested nine suspects during an 18-day anti-smuggling operation across Caraga region that concluded May 18, authorities reported Tuesday. The largest seizures occurred in Surigao del Norte, where P857,400 worth of...
