A 38-year-old man tagged as a high-value individual (HVI) in the police's drug watch list was arrested in a buy-bust operation conducted by members of the Southern Police District Drug Enforcement (SPD-DEU) and Pasay City police on Saturday, Jan. 7. SPD Director Brig. Gen. Kirby John Kraft said the...
POLICE and residents uproot marijuana plants valued at P120,000 in Sitio Diamante, Barangay Dalirig, Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon on Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 4. (Photo courtesy of the Manolo Fortich Municipal Police Station) CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- Marijuana plants valued at P120,000 were discovered in...
APARRI, Cagayan – Authorities arrested three high-value targets and seized suspected shabu worth P1.4 million during the implementation of a search warrant here on Thursday, Dec. 29. Suspects were identified as Rolando Uri, 52; Mila Malana, 50, and Michael Uri, 37, store owner. Seized from...
Photo: Shutterstock NEW YORK, United States – New York's first legal recreational marijuana dispensary opened on Thursday in the heart of Manhattan. More than 100 people crowded into the dispensary in New York City's East Village, run by the nonprofit Housing Works, a group dedicated to...
Anti-narcotics authorities arrested three high value targets (HVT) on Thursday, Dec. 29, after they allegedly yielded P1.4 million worth of shabu and marijuana valued at P10,000 in a search warrant operation in Cagayan province. PDEA logo The operation conducted by the Philippine Drug Enforcement...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Police arrested 10 suspected drug pushers and seized P42-M illegal drugs in the Cordillera region from Dec. 18 to 24. The Police Regional Office-Cordillera Regional Operations Division (ROD) said the Baguio City Police Office (BCPO) arrested eight drug personalities...
BAGUIO CITY – Authorities recovered P42,960,000 worth of dried marijuana leaves and stalks at Sitio Silay, Poblacion in Tinglayan, Kalinga on Friday, Dec. 23. Personnel from PIU/Philippine Drug Enforcement Unit, Tinglayan Police Station, RID Police Regional Office-Cordillera, RPDEU, and...
SHABU confiscated in various anti-drug operations in Iloilo province this year. (IPPO) ILOILO CITY – Police seized illegal drugs totaling P249 million in Western Visayas in the first 11 months of this year. The Police Regional Office (PRO)-6 said more than 36 kilos of suspected shabu and seven...
BANGKOK, Thailand -- From sleek boutiques to rickety stalls, hundreds of cannabis dispensaries have sprouted across Bangkok following decriminalisation, but in a nation once infamous for tough drug laws, Thai vendors are asking: can the high times last? In a Southeast Asian first, the kingdom...
BAGUIO CITY (PNA) – Ifugao Gov. Jerry Dalipog said abandoned rice terraces can be utilized for marijuana cultivation once a bill to legalize medical marijuana becomes a law. DALIPOG (lpp.gov.ph) “Okay ako diyan (I am okay with that) in some areas of the rice terraces, especially at the highly...
An alleged drug den maintainer and his four cohorts were arrested by members of the Southern Police District-Drug Enforcement Unit (SPD-DEU) during a drug-bust operation in Las Pinas on Saturday, Dec. 10. SPD director Brig. Gen. John Brion Kraft identified the suspects as John Paul Nartea Rosales,...
POLICE discover marijuana worth P1.4 million in a buy-bust operation in Barangay 2 Poblacion, Hinoba-an, Negros Occidental last Monday. (Photo courtesy of Negros Occidental police) BACOLOD CITY – Police seized 300 marijuana plants and seedlings valued at P1.4 million from a suspected...
