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(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday, Feb. 25, said the Colombian Medellin cartel has expanded its operations and is now in the Philippines. In a speech before barangay leaders in Pasay, Duterte said this explained the bricks of cocaine found floating off waters of some parts of the country. The latest ones were recovered in Davao Oriental, Surigao del Sur and Aurora. According to Duterte, the GPS trackers were attached to the illegal drugs so […]
(Eagle News)–A brick of cocaine estimated at P6.3 million was found off the waters of Aurora on Saturday, Feb. 23. The police on Monday, Feb. 25, said the cocaine was found by a local fisherman in Dingalan, who reported the find to the police. According to the police, the brick was wrapped in plastic and sealed with rubber tape. The cocaine has been sent to the Crime Lab to undergo testing.
(Eagle News)–At least 36 kilograms of cocaine were found off Davao Oriental on Sunday, Feb. 24. The P200 million worth of illegal drugs was apart from the 34 kilograms of cocaine found off Surigao del Sur on the same day. The illegal drugs off Davao Oriental have been brought to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Region 11. President Rodrigo Duterte has said international drug cartels were behind the illegal drugs found floating off Philippine waters. […]
(Eagle News)—At least 34 bricks of suspected cocaine were recovered off the coast of Surigao del Sur on Sunday, Feb. 24. The bricks were discovered by two fishermen in Barangay Bungtod, Tandag City, and reported the same to the authorities. According to a police report, the bricks had dollar signs similar to those seen in the ones recovered in Dinagat Islands recently. The drugs have been brought to the Crime Lab for testing. Earlier, total of 77 […]
(Eagle News) — Another brick of cocaine was found off the waters of Quezon. According to a report, the brick was found by a teenager near the coastline of Barangay Cagsiay II around 12 noon. The teenager informed his brother of the discovery, and subsequently reported the find to soldiers deployed in the area. Early this week, bricks of cocaine were discovered off Quezon shores in two separate instances. President Rodrigo Duterte has said international drug […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, Feb. 20, said international drug cartels were behind the blocks of cocaine recently found floating in some of the country’s waters. “The news that you hear every day about the floating drugs all around the country is that really we have confirmed that (Sinaloa) and the Medellin cartels are in the trade now. And it’s cocaine. It has always been cocaine from Mexico,” Duterte said. Earlier, PNP Chief Oscar […]
(Eagle News) — At least 37 blocks of suspected cocaine were recovered off Dinagat Islands in Caraga. The police said the blocks of suspected cocaine were found floating near the shoreline of Cagdianao in Barangay Poblacion on Tuesday, Feb. 12. The discovery was reported by a fisherman to the Cagdianao municipal police station. The blocks will be subjected to examination at the Crime Laboratory of the Police Regional Office-13.
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese police have seized 1.3 tons of cocaine from South America in the country’s biggest ever haul of the drug, authorities said. Police in the southern city of Shenzhen have detained 10 suspects, mostly from Hong Kong, following an investigation that began in July 2017, the Guangdong province public security department said. The statement, released Tuesday, called it the “biggest amount of cocaine seized in the country.” The official Xinhua news […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) — Police have seized nearly 400 kilos of cocaine from the Russian embassy in Buenos Aires and arrested several members of a drug trafficking gang, Argentina’s security minister announced Thursday. Patricia Bullrich told a press conference that the drugs discovered in an annex of the embassy had a street value of around 50 million euros (about $62 million). “A gang of narco-criminals was trying to use the diplomatic courier service of […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Millions of dollars of cocaine packed in a plastic drum has washed up on a seashore in the eastern Philippines, an anti-narcotics official said Friday. A local fisherman in the town of Matnog found the drum on Wednesday and reported it to authorities, not knowing what was inside, said Christian Frivaldo, a regional director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency. Inside the drum, anti-drug agents found about 24 kilograms (53 […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — A 27-year-old woman from the Ivory Coast has been arrested on the Thai island of Phuket after an airport X-ray found more than one kilogram of cocaine in her stomach wrapped in scores of small packets. The woman was stopped by officials late Wednesday night at Phuket’s international airport after landing on a flight from Doha. An X-ray revealed more than 60 small packages in her stomach, filled with 1.2 […]
Peruvian authorities capped off their sixth major drug burn of the year with the elimination of a haul of 2 tonnes (2.2 tons) mostly of cocaine Wednesday (October 14). The latest incineration included the 2 tonnes (2.2 tons) of drugs seized since September 11, according to media reports. The event took place with a public burning. Jorge Flores Goicochea, a vice minister at Peru’s Interior Ministry, announced the contents of the drug after testing. “Today, […]
