49 abandoned marijuana bricks worth P5.9 million recovered in Lubuagan
Police recovered 49 marijuana bricks weighing about 49 kg and valued at P5.88 million, abandoned beside a highway in Dangoy, Lubuagan, Kalinga on 20 November 2023 after a tip about a motorcycle rider. No one was arrested, and a manhunt for the courier was under way.
Kalinga police recovered P5.88 million worth of marijuana, already
semi-processed into brick form, along the national highway at Sitio Jangayoy,
Barangay Dangoy, in Lubuagan town on Monday.[1][2]
The 2nd Kalinga Provincial Mobile Force Company had received a tip that an
unidentified male rider was moving marijuana bricks from Tinglayan toward
Tabuk City, and a second tip that a rider had unloaded baggage beside the road
at Jangayoy.[1][2]
Officers searched along the national road and found an army duffle bag partly
covered with leaves and branches holding 49 bricks of dried marijuana leaves
weighing about 49,000 grams.[1][2]
The bricks were inventoried on site in the presence of a Dangoy village
official, brought to the Lubuagan police station and then to the Kalinga
provincial forensic unit for examination, while a manhunt for the courier
continued.[1][2]
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Police inventory the 49 bricks of dried marijuana leaves recovered at Sitio Jangayoy, in a photo credited to PNP Lubuagan.Photo details
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Arrested 46Plants destroyed 0Area 0 haCannabis 12.19 g
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