Four transporting Kalinga weed caught in Isabela

BAGUIO CITY (June 28, 2021)— Combined police units from the Cordillera and Cagayan Valley regions cornered four alleged transporters of marijuana bricks bought from Tabuk City, Kalinga Sunday afternoon.
Jerwin Lipalam, 24, from Dagupan, Tondo, Manila; Jayson Pallares, 23, a driver from Caloocan City; Alvin Guiyab, 20, from San Mariano, Isabela and “Marco,” 17, from Tondo, Manila were intercepted on board a silver Toyota Vios loaded with ten marijuana bricks weighing more or less ten kilos. The contraband have Standard Drug Price (SDP) of P1,200,000.00.
Cagayan Valley police director Brig. General Crizaldo Nieves said Kalinga policemen at around 1:20 PM Sunday received a tip about a gray car loaded with weed, prompting the Kalinga Provincial Tactical Operation Center to monitor the vehicle and an intensified checkpoint operations on Quarantine Checkpoints (QCP).

At around 1:30 PM, the police spotted the vehicle of the four about to pass the QCP. 
When the cops at the checkpoint flagged down the car, the driver accelerated the car and fled towards towards Abbut, Quezon, Isabela.   
Policemen gave chase and radioed the nearby police station about the pursuit. 
At around 2:10 PM,  the four were flagged down at Barangay Alunan, Quezon, Isabela.
Aside from the marijuana bricks, a caliber 38 revolver with no serial number, five  live ammunitions of the gun, one  Vivo cellphone, one  Sagada bag, and a sling bag were seized from the four.
It was not immediately known if Cordillera police director Brig. Gen. Ronald Lee would be true to his earlier declaration to summon and sanction police units in an area where marijuana was sourced out by caught transporters outside the highland region, still considered as the country’s largest producer of marijuana.
Artemio A. Dumlao

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