CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - Authorities seized some PHP3.5 million worth of counterfeit medicines in a recent raid in Ozamiz City, police said. In a phone interview late Tuesday, Col. Michelle Olaivar, spokesperson of the Police Regional Office - Northern Mindanao (PRO-10) said the law enforcers did not expect to find a big number of both prescription drugs and over-the-counter medicines stored inside the suspect's house identified as Leonardo Duma Jr. in that city. The police raiding team, together with personnel from the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA), searched the house of Duma, 56, in Purok 6, Barangay Calabayan based on three search warrants issued by a local court on March 5. "Both the police and FDA thought the suspect was just engaged in a small-time retailing. They were not aware that it was a big business operation," Olaivar said. Among the confiscated items were two big boxes containing 31,700 capsules of loperamide hydrochloride; another box contained 27,000 ta