Members of the Station Drug Enforcement Unit (SDEU) of the Paranaque City and Pasay City police conducted separate buy-bust operations that led to the arrest of four drug suspects and confiscated from them P146,336 worth of shabu and dried marijuana leaves on Tuesday (Feb. 15). In Paranaque City,...
Gummy candies and vape items with cannabis? That is what the joint operations of the Bureau of Customs NAIA (BOC-NAIA), Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), and the NAIA Inter-Agency Drug Interdiction Task Group (NAIA-IADITG) found out as agents seized these items last Monday, Jan. 31, in...
A package containing vape cartridges and gummy candies allegedly infused with marijuana was seized by the authorities when it was delivered to a female claimant at the Central Mail Exchange Center in Pasay City on Monday, Jan. 31. (Courtesy of BOC-NAIA) Operatives of the Bureau of Customs at the...
A total of 6,221 illegal drugs personalities were killed while 13,996 drug suspects were arrested since President Duterte launched an intensified campaign against illegal drugs. In its July 1, 2016 to Nov. 30, 2021 “Real Numbers’’ data, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) noted that...
Former K-pop boy band BTOB member Jung Ilhoon, 27, was freed from prison on Dec. 16 after an appeals court commuted his sentence. In its decision, the Seoul High Court gave Ilhoon a two-year prison sentence suspended for three years for habitual marijuana use. Former BTOB member Jung Ilhoon...
A minor who was initially cited by the police for not wearing a face mask was arrested after dried marijuana leaves were found in his possession on Tuesday, Dec. 14, in Pasay City. Col. Cesar Paday-os, Pasay City police chief, identified the suspect as Kyle San Juan,19, student, and a resident of...
It's up to the election hopefuls whether or not they want to undergo drug testing. (Clockwise) Former Senator Bongbong Marcos, Senator Tito Sotto, Senator Ping Lacson (MANILA BULLETIN) This was basically Malacañang's reaction Tuesday, Nov. 23, even as it acknowledged that several aspiring...
A Seoul appeals court upheld the prison sentence imposed against Jung Ilhoon, 27, a former member of K-pop boy band BTOB, who was found guilty of habitual marijuana use last June. On Nov. 18, the 13th Criminal Division of the Seoul High Court held an appeal trial against Ilhoon. Former BTOB member...
Anti-narcotics authorities seized P600,000 worth of marijuana bricks from two alleged drug pushers who were nabbed in a buy-bust operation in Mariveles, Bataan on Thursday, Nov. 11. (Photo from PDEA) In a statement, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) identified the suspects as Challikis...
Operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) intercepted 31 parcels of suspected marijuana with an estimated street value of P324,000 in an anti-illegal drug operation in Dasmariñas City, Cavite on Thursday night, Nov. 4. (PDEA photo) Aided by the narcotics detection dogs “Jack”...
Anti-narcotics operatives on Saturday, Oct. 23 uprooted P20.6 million worth of marijuana plants in three different plantation sites in Cebu province. In a statement, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said the three plantation areas are one in Balamban town and two in Toledo City. The...
The Bureau of Customs has confiscated three bottles of medicine which turned out to be containing marijuana in a foiled smuggling attempt into the country through the Port of Clark International Airport. The bottles were inside a parcel that was declared as “over counter drugs for personal...
