PDEA Cagayan Valley head Primitivo Bayungan said operatives intercepted the contraband on a passenger bus at Sitio Tubong in Naganacan, Santa Maria at about 2pm on Thursday, after surveillance work with the Isabela police on suspected traffickers in the region.[1] Four cigarette boxes in the bus cargo hold concealed the dried marijuana bricks, consigned to one Arnel Viernes of Cubao, Quezon City; Bayungan said the marijuana had likely come from Kalinga and was bound for Metro Manila.[1] The joint team of PDEA, Isabela police, criminal investigators and police intelligence could not identify the shippers.[1]
103 kg of marijuana bricks seized from Isabela bus
Anti-drug officers intercepted 103 kg of dried marijuana bricks hidden in four cigarette boxes in a passenger bus cargo hold at Sitio Tubong, Santa Maria, Isabela on 21 January 2010. The shipment was consigned to a man in Quezon City, but the shippers were never identified.
🇵🇭 Sitio Tubong, Barangay Naganacan, Santa Maria, Isabela · Philippines
- Cannabis
- 103 kg
- Agency
- PDEA
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Cannabis
- 103 kg
- Value (official estimate)
- PHP 3,000,000
- Agency type
- Anti-narcotics agency
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis (103 kg)
- Activity
- Trafficking
- Setting
- Vehicle
Sources
- Northern Philippine Timesnorthphiltimes.blogspot.comArchived copyMarijuana bricks seized in Isabela; P183 M 'green gold' burned in La Union
Open questions the AI reported
- Only the regional weekly's account of this seizure was found, so no second outlet confirms the details.
- The operatives could not establish who shipped the boxes or the consignee's role beyond the name on them.
