Friday, December 28, 2007

Ten marijuana bricks seized

Tabuk City, Kalinga - An inspection conducted by police at the Talaca checkpoint in Agbannawag, this city, around 4:20 PM of December 18 on a passenger bus bound for Manila yielded 10 dried marijuana bricks weighing around 10,000 grams with estimated Dangerous Drugs Board value of P250,000.00.

The police said the contraband were packed in a carton box without markings or address of owner and was loaded in the running board of the Dangwa bus bearing plate number AYC 449 with body number NE 836 being driven by Joseph Laguito Ente with his conductor Rogelio Mariano Dayao and bus inspector Montano Walac.

Kalinga Police Provincial Director Maximino Valiente said that when the policemen asked the bus crew and the passengers who owns the carton, nobody admitted ownership of the baggage.

Valiente said the apprehending policemen acted on information dried marijuana bricks are being transported by buses and jeepneys from Tinglayan, this province, the primary source of marijuana in the locality, and are intended for other provinces including Metro-Manila.

The police team which was led by Inspector Naddiahan Pinkihan of the 160th Mobile Group and SPO4 Celestino Dong-as of the Drugs Enforcement Unit (DEU) here flagged down the bus and requested the driver for an inspection of the bus which resulted in the find. **by Estanislao Albano , Jr., ZZW Dec. 23, 2007