Three arrested in Tarlac buy-bust with P4.6M marijuana
Police arrested three Mountain Province men in a buy-bust in Barangay San Nicolas, Tarlac City on 2 May 2021. Officers seized 24 marijuana bricks and 26 rolled leaves valued at P4.6 million plus two bottles of cannabis oil, which police linked to a group operating in Tarlac, Pangasinan and Mountain Province.
🇵🇭 Barangay San Nicolas, Tarlac City, Tarlac · Philippines
Police arrested three men from Mountain Province in a buy-bust operation in
Tarlac City on Sunday, 2 May 2021.[1]Philippine National Police chief Gen.
Debold Sinas identified them as Cornelio Chumil-Ang, 33, Jomar Pallar, 24, and
Marcelino Caraowa, 40.[2]Tarlac City police and the Tarlac provincial police
office nabbed the suspects at around 1:30 a.m. in Barangay San Nicolas, Tarlac
City.[1]Sinas said they belonged to a group traffickingnarcotics in
Pangasinan, Tarlac and Mountain Province.[1]
Officers seized 24 bricks of dried marijuana leaves and 26 rolled dried
marijuana leaves that police valued at P4.6 million.[1]Officers also seized
two bottles of suspected cannabis oil that police valued at P30,000.[3]Police
also seized mobile phones and two vehicles they said were used to transport the
marijuana.[2]
Investigators said the three belonged to the same group whose members had been
arrested with marijuana in Tarlac in February 2021.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No weight for the marijuana bricks, rolled leaves or cannabis oil was published, so no kilograms can be recorded.
The Philstar account says 42 marijuana bricks were offered to undercover officers, while the Inquirer and Bombo Radyo accounts say 24 bricks were seized; this report uses 24 bricks because two accounts agree on that count.
The cannabis oil was described only as two bottles valued at P30,000, with no volume given, so it is described in the text but not converted to kilograms.
No court outcome was reported; the accounts say only that the suspects were to face charges under Republic Act 9165.
No verifiable event photo could be included: the submitted Inquirer page uses a stock handcuffs image, and the Bombo Radyo images carry no caption establishing that they show this seizure.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Bombo Radyo: The suspects and the evidence were taken to Camp Gen. Macabulos in Tarlac City to face charges under Republic Act 9165, the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
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PDEA Bicol arrested a 20-year-old Quezon City man at Matnog Port in Sorsogon on 8 November 2026 and seized a vape cartridge holding about one gram of suspected liquid marijuana. The agency valued the contents at P1,700 on the street and said the man would face charges under Republic Act 9165.
