The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) signed Tuesday, Dec. 7, a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with electronic commerce (e-commerce) firms Lazada E-Services Philippines Inc and Shopee Philippines Inc. in a bid to track down drug traffickers using online services. In a statement, PDEA...
A "high value target" who was allegedly included in the drugs watchlist of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) was arrested in a buybust operation in Buguey, Cagayan on Thursday, Dec. 2. (Photo: PDEA) The PDEA said that Romeo Cabeza, 40, of Brgy. Pattao in Buguey town, yielded P34,000...
A barangay in Mandaluyong City has already been cleared of illegal drugs, the local government announced Thursday, Nov. 25. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), the Department of Health (DOH), and the Philippine National Police (PNP)...
The hands of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) are tied as the confidentiality law restricts the agency from making public the drug test results of the political bets in the local or national elections. In a telephone interview on Thursday, Nov. 25, PDEA spokesperson Derrick Arnold...
Vice presidential aspirant Mayor Sara Duterte of Davao City said yesterday that she was negative to any illegal substances after taking a drug test on Wednesday, Nov. 24. 50B3404E-BB7A-4E14-B32F-F0F7E874583D “This test, I took voluntarily upon the request of my Uniteam partner, Senator Bongbong...
Anti-narcotics operatives arrested a suspected drug pusher in the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency’s (PDEA’s) high value target (HVT) list on Tuesday night, Nov. 23 in an enforced search warrant in his place in Iriga City, Camarines Sur. The operating team identified the suspect as Dennis...
Presidential aspirant and Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" on Wednesday, Nov. 24, said he already wrote a request to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) to conduct a drug test on him. Mayor Isko Moreno (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) "Sumulat na ako sa sa PDEA, testing sa cocaine, shabu,...
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...
The negative drug test result of former senator and presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong’’ Marcos Jr. was submitted to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) by his spokesperson, lawyer Vic Rodriguez. PDEA spokesperson Derrick Arnold...
Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III and Senator Panfilo M. Lacson today, Nov. 22 underwent an ‘’encompassing holistic drug test’’ at the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) to show that they are drug free as they prepare for the May 2022 national elections. The Lacson/Sotto...
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Wilkins Villanueva was among the recipients of the Outstanding Filipino Luminary Awards 2021 for National Government Service. PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva (File photo) In simple rites on Friday, Nov. 19, at the Conrad Manila...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) launched the “Dangerous Drugs and Controlled Precursors and Essential Chemicals Monitoring System (DDCPEC-MS), a scheme that will monitor the regulated dangerous drugs and prevent the diversion of chemicals used in...
