PHILIPPINE DRUG Enforcement Agency (PDEA) operatives have confiscated PHP26.3 million worth of illegal drugs in separate operations in the provinces of Cavite and Pampanga, and in Pasay City.
In a statement on Friday, the PDEA said a suspect, identified as alias Sian, 30, was arrested in the buy-bust operation in Dasmariñas, Cavite, and seized from him around 1.5 kilos of shabu worth PHP10.2 million.
In Clark, Pampanga, the PDEA Clark Interdiction unit confiscated 4,491 pieces of party drug tablets, known as ecstasy, worth PHP7.6 million in an operation on April 2.
The illegal drugs were found in a shipment that arrived at the Port of Clark on March 29 from Belgium.
"PDEA International Cooperation and Foreign Affairs Service (ICFAS) received information that a certain parcel from Belgium will arrive at Port of Clark. The said information was relayed by PDEA Intelligence Service to PDEA Regional Office 3, which led to the successful interdiction operation,” the PDEA said.
In Pasay City, the PDEA and the NAIA Inter-Agency Drug Interdiction Task Group (NAIA-IADITG) seized abandoned inbound parcels containing dried leaves suspected to be marijuana kush weighing 7,703 grams with standard price of PHP8.55 million at Central Mail Exchange Center in Domestic Road, Pasay City on April 2.
The PDEA said the abandoned parcels were declared as rice TH, pillows, dried fruits, tea, and toys.
The shipper and receiver involved are subject to investigation and the filing of appropriate charges in violation of Republic Act 9165.
Drug evidence will be submitted to the PDEA Laboratory Service for further laboratory examination. (Christopher Lloyd Caliwan)
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