POLICE OPERATIVES in Tungawan town seized on Wednesday, more than 6,000 reams of smuggled cigarettes believed to cost an estimated amount of Php2.4Million .
Chief of Police PCPT Wabelin Ama Tarroza said the contraband items which were cased in a total of 123 cartons were found loaded inside a mini Wingvan that was left abandoned at a bushy forested area in Purok Panagatan, San Vicente, Tungawan, this province.
The smuggled items were covered with 52 crates of dried fish as front “to make it appear that what was being transported were dried fish products.”
According to Chief of Police Tarroza, when the PNP intelligence section received tip from an informant of an alleged loading of contraband, “we immediately dispatched operating team to conduct ocular inspection and validation of the report,” he said. Together with the operating elements were PDEA agents and the town’s mayor Carlnan C. Climaco.
Arrested were one laborer identified as Abdurasman Usman, 33, resident of the island province of Sulu and the van driver, a certain Hussein Aukasa, resident of Brgy Mampang, Zamboanga City. Both were detained at the Tungawan Police Station .
The seized items are under custody of the PNP for proper disposition. The vehicle carrying the contraband items was also impounded.(By Jocelyn Alvarez)
Chief of Police PCPT Wabelin Ama Tarroza said the contraband items which were cased in a total of 123 cartons were found loaded inside a mini Wingvan that was left abandoned at a bushy forested area in Purok Panagatan, San Vicente, Tungawan, this province.
The smuggled items were covered with 52 crates of dried fish as front “to make it appear that what was being transported were dried fish products.”
According to Chief of Police Tarroza, when the PNP intelligence section received tip from an informant of an alleged loading of contraband, “we immediately dispatched operating team to conduct ocular inspection and validation of the report,” he said. Together with the operating elements were PDEA agents and the town’s mayor Carlnan C. Climaco.
Arrested were one laborer identified as Abdurasman Usman, 33, resident of the island province of Sulu and the van driver, a certain Hussein Aukasa, resident of Brgy Mampang, Zamboanga City. Both were detained at the Tungawan Police Station .
The seized items are under custody of the PNP for proper disposition. The vehicle carrying the contraband items was also impounded.(By Jocelyn Alvarez)
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