SHIPMENT SEIZED. Authorities seize a shipment of some PHP2.9 million worth of smuggled cigarettes Monday (September 12, 2022) at the shore of Sitio Garin-Garing, Barangay Tiayon, Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay. The cigarettes came from Jolo, Sulu based on the declaration of the five crew of a motorboat ferrying the contrabands.(Photo courtesy of Area Police Command-Western Mindanao) ZAMBOANGA CITY - Authorities arrested five crewmen of a motorboat they intercepted loaded with PHP2.9 million worth of smuggled cigarettes that had just docked in Zamboanga Sibugay province, a top police official said Tuesday. Col. Richard Verceles, operations chief of the Area Police Command-Western Mindanao, said the motorboat locally known as jungkong skippered by 40-year-old Abdul Garam was intercepted at 11.38 p.m. Monday at the shore of Sitio Garing-Garing, Barangay Tiayon, Ipil, the capital town of Zamboanga Sibugay. Verceles said Garam's crew were identified as Cammar Hassan, 40, Marvin Dambong, 24, an