TRANSPORTATION OF P2M WORTH OF MARIJUANA INTERCEPTED IN MOUNTAIN PROVINCE

Eleven (11) individuals will now be facing charges for violation of RA 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 after they were arrested for transporting marijuana bricks worth over 2 million pesos in Sadanga, Mountain Province in the evening of October 14, 2023.

According to the report reaching the PRO Cordillera Regional Director, PBGEN DAVID K PEREDO, JR., the arrested suspects were identified as Wendel Alvarado, 20 y/o; Jade Del Mundo, 19 y/o; Bien Velasquez, 22 y/o; Christopher John Zabala, 23 y/o; Erika Javiero,  24 y/o; Paulo Segismundo, 32 y/o; Jaycee Cayanan, 21 y/o; Joseph Padayao Jr., 29 y/o; Belnas Conrado Jr., 24 y/o; Jon Paulo Bolivar, 29 y/o; and Cherry Ann Lomibao, 24 y/o.

The same report disclosed that the suspects were arrested by the joint personnel of the Sadanga Municipal Police Station (MPS), Provincial Intelligence Unit of Mountain Province PPO, 2nd Mountain Province Provincial Mobile Force Company, Regional Intelligence Unit-14, Regional Mobile Force Battalion 15, Regional EOD and Canine Unit-Cordillera, and PDEA- Mountain Province after they were cornered in a COMELEC Checkpoint conducted by the operatives at Sitio Ampawilen, Poblacion, Sadanga.

The operating units confiscated 14 bricks and 3 tubular forms of suspected dried marijuana leaves and stalks with an estimated weight of 16,750.45 grams and a Standard Drug Price of Php 2,010,054.00.

The inventory and markings of the pieces of evidence recovered were conducted onsite in the presence of the arrested suspects and witnessed by Ms. Novy Del Rosario Afidchao, Provincial Information Officer, PLGU-Mountain Province, and Mr. William Farong-ey, Barangay Kagawad.

The arrested suspects and the seized pieces of evidence were brought to the custody of Sadanga MPS for documentation and proper disposition. (PRO CORDILLERA-PIO / Files photo)