Cops find P3 million MJ bricks on Benguet roads

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Some P3.3 million marijuana were seized while two drug suspects were arrested in operations conducted recently by the Police Regional Office-Cordillera.

Chief Supt. Rolando Nana, regional director, said 39 tube forms and 30 bricks of dried marijuana were confiscated in a separate police operation after a concerned citizen tipped off the abandonment of marijuana on a road last Oct. 27.

Nana said Kapangan town police confiscated 26 tubular forms worth P2,850,000 abandoned on the Paykek-Sagubo provincial road at Lomon, Paykekin the town that morning.

They were placed in two traveling bags and a sack found at the right portion of the road hidden in a ravine around four meters deep.

In the afternoon of the same day, operatives seized four tubular marijuana dried leaves worth P444,000 also abandoned on Gov. Bado Dangwa Road, Sitio Longon, Beling-Belis, Kapangan.

The marijuana was placed in a red bag wrapped with a yellow plastic and further taped with brown packaging tape.

In another operation, nearby Kibungan town police in coordination with Kapangan cops found 30 abandoned marijuana bricks and nine tube forms inside the drainage on the road in Barangay Beleng-Belis, Kapangan.

The Dangerous Drugs Board valued the seized marijuana which were placed inside two rice sacks at of P927,500.

He said the seizure of the contraband is an offshoot of tipped information that three vehicles, not locally owned, were seen parked for a long time in the vicinity of the concrete boundary arc of Kibungan-Kapangan, on the national road, which prompted Kapangan and Kibungan police to investigate.