Two couriers held with 50 marijuana bricks at Lubuagan checkpoint
Police flagged down two suspected couriers at a checkpoint in Lubuagan, Kalinga on 22 September 2024 and found 50 marijuana bricks plus a tubular pack weighing 51 kg and valued at P6.12 million in their vehicle; the pair face drug charges.
Two alleged couriers trying to move marijuana out of Kalinga were flagged down
on Sunday 22 September 2024 during a checkpoint operation in Lubuagan, Kalinga.[1][2]Officers stopped the vehicle during regular peace-and-order operations
and noticed suspicious bags on its passenger side.[1][2]Inside they found 50
marijuana bricks plus a tubular pack of dried marijuana leaves and stalks
wrapped in transparent plastic, weighing 51 kilos altogether and valued at
P6,120,000.[1][2]
The pair were arrested and will face illegal drug charges, but the accounts do
not name them.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
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.
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.
