COTABATO CITY — Anti-narcotics agents on Friday foiled an attempt to ship P840,000 worth of compressed dried marijuana leaves via a big forwarding company operating a branch in General Santos (GenSan) City.
Using drug-sniffing dogs, agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-12 (PDEA-12) and policemen found seven kilos of marijuana in parcels stored in the forwarding firm’s cargo storage facility in Barangay Apopong.
Benjamin C. Recites III, director of PDEA-12, told reporters on Sunday that their operation last Friday premised on tips by confidential informants aware of the circulation of such illegal merchandise in cities in and provinces in Central Mindanao via legitimate cargo and parcel transport outfits.
Personnel of police units and PDEA agents in different regions in Mindanao had seized, in one operation after another in recent months, dried marijuana in sealed parcels from online suppliers facilitating distribution via legitimate cargo forwarders.
The PDEA-12 and intelligence units of the Police Regional Office 12 are cooperating in identifying the real shippers and consignees of the marijuana in parcels confiscated during an interdiction operation on Friday in General Santos City. — John Felix M. Unson
