2 nabbed for transporting illegal narra
>> Tuesday, February 28, 2023
PINUKPUK, Kalinga
-- Police arrested two individuals who were caught transporting
undocumented narra flitches worth over P630,000 here in Barangay Camalog
recently.
A report to Cordillera police director Brig. Gen. Mafelino Bazar identified suspects as Johnny Alingcao Lumiwes Jr. 28, and Joseph Armando Carig Gammad, 33.
The report said police of Pinukpuk Municipal Police Station received a call from the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (Cenro) informing them that their Bantay Gubat workers stationed at the Kapanikian checkpoint and personnel of the Philippine Army flagged down a truck loaded with narra flitches.
Pinukpuk police immediately responded to the call, inspected the truck and asked Lumiwes and Gammad for documents for the narra flitches.
When they failed to show documents, they were detained by the police.
Confiscated from the suspects were narra slabs with an estimated volume of 700 board feet with an estimated market value of P630,000.
The arrested suspects are now under the custody of Pinukpuk police and will be facing charges for violation of Presidential Decree 705 or the "Revised Forestry Code of the Philippines."
The truck and the flitches were brought to Cenro Pinukpuk Office for proper disposition.
A report to Cordillera police director Brig. Gen. Mafelino Bazar identified suspects as Johnny Alingcao Lumiwes Jr. 28, and Joseph Armando Carig Gammad, 33.
The report said police of Pinukpuk Municipal Police Station received a call from the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (Cenro) informing them that their Bantay Gubat workers stationed at the Kapanikian checkpoint and personnel of the Philippine Army flagged down a truck loaded with narra flitches.
Pinukpuk police immediately responded to the call, inspected the truck and asked Lumiwes and Gammad for documents for the narra flitches.
When they failed to show documents, they were detained by the police.
Confiscated from the suspects were narra slabs with an estimated volume of 700 board feet with an estimated market value of P630,000.
The arrested suspects are now under the custody of Pinukpuk police and will be facing charges for violation of Presidential Decree 705 or the "Revised Forestry Code of the Philippines."
The truck and the flitches were brought to Cenro Pinukpuk Office for proper disposition.
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