1.56 kg of kush found in 12 abandoned parcels at Pasay mail hub
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.
🇵🇭 Central Mail Exchange Center, Domestic Road, Pasay City · Philippines
Police and inter-agency personnel intercepted 12 abandoned inbound parcels at
the Central Mail Exchange Center along Domestic Road in Pasay City on 6 November
2026.[1][2]The parcels were declared to contain clothing, toys, household items, vehicle parts and gifts.[3][4]The parcels originated from Thailand, India, the United States and the Netherlands.[3][4]The parcels held about 1,563 grams of suspected marijuana kush, which
the police valued at ₱1,563,000.[1][3][4]Kush here means high-grade marijuana; no
one was arrested over the parcels.[1]
The same parcels carried about 11,241 grams of shabu, the local name for
methamphetamine hydrochloride, and 2,232 grams of ketamine; those are separate
drugs and are not counted in the cannabis figure.[1][5][4]The drugs were concealed in clothing, food and tea packaging, wooden containers, a metal pulley, a handbag and a deep fryer.[3][4]
Police valued the whole two-day nationwide haul, including the parcels, at
₱91,887,240 and gave it as 15,436.80 grams of suspected illegal drugs.[1]In
the same two days police arrested four people in Iloilo and South Cotabato
buy-bust operations, none of them in connection with the Pasay parcels.[6]
The parcels’ contents were to be turned over to the National Office of PDEA, the
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, for disposition.[1]The seized substances were submitted to the PDEA Laboratory Service for testing, with an investigation ongoing into whether to file charges.[2][4]BOC-NAIA led the operation in coordination with the Customs Anti-Illegal Drugs Task Force, the NAIA Inter-Agency Drug Interdiction Task Group, PDEA and other agencies.[2][4]PNP chief Police
General Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. said networks using transport and delivery
facilities would be pursued and those behind the shipments held accountable.[6]
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No one was reported arrested or charged over the 12 parcels; the addressees and senders were not named.
The parcels were reported to originate from Thailand, India, the United States and the Netherlands, but their destination addresses and mode of shipment were not reported.
The PHP1,563,000 valuation is an official estimate, not an independently confirmed market price.
The operation is given as 6 November, while the BOC account was reported on 11 November and the earlier PNP account on 8 November.
The same PNP roundup reports shabu buy-busts in Iloilo and South Cotabato, separate events left out of this report.
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 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.
