Nine sacks of marijuana bricks weighing 358 kg seized in Tinglayan, Kalinga
Kalinga police and anti-drug agents recovered nine sacks holding 358 kilos of dried marijuana bricks and tubular packs worth P42.96 million beside the road at Sitio Silay in Barangay Poblacion, Tinglayan. Residents had tipped them that unidentified men planned to carry the marijuana to Tabuk City, but the men abandoned the sacks and no one was arrested.
Kalinga police seized nine sacks holding 358 kilos of dried marijuana bricks and
tubular packs in Tinglayan town worth P42.96 million, in what the provincial
police information officer called the biggest single seizure of marijuana in
Kalinga in 2022.[1]
Residents of Sitio Silay in Barangay Poblacion tipped the police that
unidentified men were about to move marijuana bricks from Tinglayan to Tabuk
City.[1]Police went to the village to arrest the men, but they abandoned the
cargo and fled, and no one was arrested after a pursuit operation.[1]The
sacks had been stockpiled beside the road when officers arrived shortly after 4
a.m., so the police positioned themselves nearby and waited, but nobody came for
them.[2]
Officers found bricks and tubular packs of marijuana leaves and stalks in
transparent plastic, and the material was taken to the Kalinga forensic unit for
examination.[1]
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The couriers were unidentified and no one had been arrested when the accounts were published; no later arrest was found.
The 358 kilos is a police estimate for material recovered in nine sacks, not a laboratory-measured weight.
The accounts describe the marijuana as 'alleged' and say it was sent to the Kalinga forensic unit; no test result was published.
The Inquirer says police responded to the tip to arrest the couriers, while Guru Press says officers found the sacks already stockpiled and waited nearby; both agree nobody came for them and no one was arrested.
The Manila Bulletin account of the same seizure, which itemised the contents of the sacks, could not be opened because the site returned an access error, so its breakdown is not used.
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Arrested 46Plants destroyed 0Area 0 haCannabis 12.19 g
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