PAGADIAN CITY - Police seized nearly P9 million worth of smuggled cigarettes and onions in separate operations in Zamboanga Peninsula, a regional police spokesperson said.
Maj. Shellamie Chang said patrolling members of the 2nd Zamboanga City Mobile Force Company and the Bureau of Customs, Intelligence and Investigation Service and Enforcement and Security Service intercepted a boat loaded with over 300 boxes of cigarettes worth more than P5 million off Tictabon Island.
She said five crew men were also arrested by the police – Saham Sahisa, the boat’s captain, 40; Nasri Hussam, 40; Alnasri Mawadi, 25; Usman Samla, 51; and Alkimar Mijan, 25 – all from Zamboanga City.
“The crew members failed to present pertinent documents of the cargos,” Chang said, adding the confiscated contraband was handed over to the Bureau of Customs.
Chang said in another anti-smuggling operation, members of the 2nd Zamboanga Sibugay Provincial Mobile Force Company, also intercepted a truck transporting 85 boxes valued at over P1 million at a checkpoint in Kumalarang town in Zamboanga Sibugay. She said the truck driver, Ajijul Eliyasan Sabtal, 30, was arrested after failing to present Customs papers for the cargo.
She said the 2nd Zamboanga City Mobile Force Company and the Bureau of Customs also confiscated over six tons of onions when a police maritime patrol intercepted a boat off Labuan village in Zamboanga City. Five crewmen - Mark Dolotino, Rodolfo Suganat, Aldisar Abdulmajid, Samson Abdulmajid, and Sadimar Abdulmajid, were also held for questioning after failing to present any pertinent papers for their cargo worth more than P2.5 million.
Authorities did not release the names of the owners of the contraband
for a still unknown reason. (Mindanao Examiner)
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