BAGUIO CITY Three members of the Acetylene Gang were arrested during a buy-bust operation conducted by personnel of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Cordillera on the night of December 26 in Sitio Piripin Bato, Barangay Pico, La Trinidad, Benguet.
PDEA Regional Director Gil Castro identif
Published April 24, 2021, 4:07 PM
BAGUIO CITY – More than P84-million worth of various dangerous drugs seized by the police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) from the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and Region 1 (Ilocos) were destroyed thru thermal destruction at the Holcim Philippines Inc. compound in Bacnotan, La Union.
PDEA Regional Director Gil Castro said a total of 979.8303 grams of shabu; 4.6550 milliliters (ml) of liquid shabu; 639,695.9333 grams of marijuana; 2016.4 ml of marijuana oil; 467.7342 grams of marijuana seeds; 673 pieces of marijuana plants, and 24 marijuana stalks valued at P84,047,913.39 were destroyed on April 22.
Castro said these dangerous drugs seized during anti-illegal drug operations by the police and PDEA units were all ordered by the courts for destruction. Majority of these are from terminated cases or cases already decided by courts.
Published February 20, 2021, 1:18 PM
BAUKO, Mountain Province – A suspected member of a syndicate operating a large marijuana distribution network in Luzon was arrested while marijuana and hashish oil valued at P12 million were seized in an interdiction operation conducted by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and Police Regional Office-Cordillera here last Friday.
PDEA Regional Director Gil Castro identified the suspect as Rexton Bangang of Sadanga, this province.
Castro said 99 kilos of marijuana in brick form and 60 milliliters of hashish oil were recovered from the suspect loaded in his Toyota Tamaraw FX.
Castro said Bangang was intercepted during a follow-up operation thru the land transportation interdiction unit, a new technology being used in a police checkpoint against the transport of illegal drugs, after members of a syndicate operating a marijuana distribution network in Northern and Central Luzon were arrested in two separate anti-illegal drug operatio