ISABELA – Authorities confiscated 55 bricks of dried marijuana leaves worth P6.6 million, but the suspect eluded arrest during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Abut, Quezon, Isabela on Saturday, Dec. 3. The buy-bust operation was conducted around 8:15 p.m. on Saturday by operatives of the...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Police arrested a 29-year-old man for allegedly transporting suspected marijuana worth over P5 million in Pasil, Kalinga on Thursday, Dec. 1. Brig. Gen. Mafelino Bazar, Police Regional Office-Cordillera director, identified the suspect as Albert Borway Dugwawi, a...
Operatives of the Eastern Police District (EPD) seized P9.12 million worth of marijuana from three regional high-value individuals (HVIs) in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Kapasigan, Pasig City early Thursday morning, Dec. 1. The report submitted to Col. Wilson C. Asueta, acting district director...
BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya – An employee of National Irrigation Administration was arrested for selling dried marijuana leaves with fruiting tops to an anti-narcotics agent in Brgy. Don Tomas Maddela here on Monday, Nov. 21. Arrested by joint personnel of Bayombong police and the Provincial...
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...
CAMP Olivas, City of San Fernando, Pampanga – Police nabbed four suspected drug pushers and seized marijuana totaling P333,000 in buy-bust operations in Central Luzon on Thursday, Nov. 17. The Police Regional Office 3 identified the suspects as Elisur Renald Rivera, Jan dela Cruz, Jeric...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin Ok, I know some of you may have been triggered by the title, but just hear me out. Just because this goes against half a century of mass media demonization and state sponsored indoctrination, isn’t it about time we have a grown up conversation about this? If not now,...
BAGUIO CITY – Police arrested three foreign nationals after a search of their house in Barangay Victoria here recently yielded packs of suspected marijuana valued at P11,400. Suspects were identified as Ephraim Samuel, 23; Jeremiah Ishaya, 21, and Amelia Paixao, 22. Brig. Gen. Mafelino...
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna – Suspected shabu and marijuana totaling P247,121 were seized in the Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon area or Region 4-A, police said on Friday, Nov. 4. Police Regional Office 4-A director Brig. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez said that the illegal drugs were...
Personnel of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) seized some P672,000 worth of high grade marijuana that was shipped from Canada through the Port of Clark. In a statement, the BOC said the confiscated item was labeled as "prescription medicines" (dry goods) and arrived in the country on Sept. 26. photo:...
Three persons were arrested for transporting suspected marijuana valued at P24.4 million in Lubuagan, Kalinga on Friday, Oct. 28. A report received by Brig. Gen. Mafelino Bazar, Police Regional Office-Cordillera director, from Col. Charles Domallig, Kalinga police chief, identified the suspects as...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Police destroyed marijuana valued at P2.4 million in Kibungan, this province, on Tuesday, Oct. 25. Col. Damian Olsim, Benguet Provincial Police Office chief, said 10,464 marijuana plants in 14 plantation sites valued at P2,092,800 were uprooted in Sitio Batangan, Sitio...
