27 drug arrests and 1.54 g of marijuana in a CALABARZON 24-hour sweep
Police arrested 27 drug suspects in 19 operations across the CALABARZON region of the Philippines in the 24 hours from 6 a.m. on 8 November to 6 a.m. on 9 November 2026, seizing 1.54 grams of marijuana alongside about 65.56 grams of shabu. In the same anti-criminality campaign officers arrested 153 wanted persons, including 45 most wanted, and 311 people in illegal gambling operations.
🇵🇭 CALABARZON region (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon), with the police report released from Camp Vicente Lim, Calamba, Laguna · Philippines
Police in the Philippines’ CALABARZON region arrested 27 drug suspects in 19
anti-illegal drug operations during a 24-hour anti-criminality campaign.[1]The operations seized about 65.56 grams of suspected shabu, the local name for
crystal methamphetamine, and 1.54 grams of marijuana.[2]
PRO 4A put the estimated value of the seized illegal drugs at 608,530.40 pesos,
without giving a separate figure for the cannabis.[1]
The campaign ran from 6 a.m. on 8 November to 6 a.m. on 9 November 2026.[1]Over the same 24 hours officers arrested 153 wanted persons across the region,
45 of them classified as most wanted.[1]The campaign covered the provinces of
Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon.[2]
In the same period police arrested 311 people in 150 illegal gambling operations
and 1,277 people were fined for local ordinance violations.[1]Regional
director Brig. Gen. Dominic L. Baccay said the operations formed part of the
regional command’s B.E.S.T. initiative, which stands for Be Visible, Engage
Immediately, Serve Together, and Transform Trust.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The sources do not say how many of the 27 drug suspects were held on cannabis offences or whether the 1.54 grams of marijuana was seized in one operation.
No cannabis-only value was published; the 608,530.40-peso estimate covers the shabu and marijuana together.
The marijuana is described only as suspected, with no laboratory confirmation reported and no charges or court outcome given.
The gambling arrests, wanted-person arrests and firearms seizures belong to the same campaign but are recorded here only as context.
Police and an airport inter-agency group found about 1.56 kg of high-grade marijuana, valued at ₱1.563 million, among 12 abandoned inbound parcels at the Pasay City mail centre on 6 November 2026. The same parcels carried far more shabu and ketamine, and no one was arrested over them.
Police arrested 46 people in 34 anti-drug operations across the CALABARZON region of the Philippines in the 24 hours to 6 a.m. on 5 November 2026. The regional police report put the cannabis seized at 10.18 grams of marijuana and 2.01 grams of kush, part of a 252,164.60-peso haul valued together with 36.46 grams of shabu.
Arrested 46Plants destroyed 0Area 0 haCannabis 12.19 g
Anti-narcotics agents seized about 4.27 kg of suspected marijuana, valued by PDEA at P512,880, from a parcel at a delivery hub in Labangan, Zamboanga del Sur on 31 October 2026. No arrests were made; the sender and receiver are still being identified and the drugs are in PDEA custody for laboratory examination.
PDEA Seaport Interdiction Unit–Batangas seized about 250 grams of suspected marijuana products worth PHP 30,000 from parcels at a courier hub in San Pedro, Laguna, on the evening of 30 October 2026. No arrests or charges were announced.
