P6.36M Weed In Bricks Seized From Three Drug Couriers At Mt. Province Checkpoint

June 28, 2020 Provincial

BAGUIO CITY (June 21, 2020) – Authorities seized at least P6.36M marijuana in brick form after three alleged couriers tried to slip through a checkpoint in Bontoc, Mt. Province on Saturday evening.
Noli Bendoy Navalez, Wilfredo De Leon Magbanua Jr., and Mary Grace Nepumoceno Lunas, all from Dasmariñas, Cavite tried to pass through a checkpoint as sitio Finew, barangay Samoki enroute to the lowlands aboard a Mitsubishi Mirage sedan.
They tried to take the Bontoc-Banaue road but alerted Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and policemen flagged them down and discovered 53 marijuana bricks they were hauling to Cavite, said PDEA-Cordillera regional director Gil Cesario Castro.
Dir. Castro said the trio slipped through various checkpoints from Cavite to the Cordillera region using government issued documents like Authority to Travel, Medical Certificates and Quarantine Passes.
Authorities are verifying if the documents of the trio were counterfeit.
Castro said aside from illegal drug charges, breaches of quarantine protocols are also being studied to be lodged against the trio.
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