BAKUN, Benguet – Two suspected drug couriers were arrested by combined police operatives and anti-narcotics agents after being found in possession of more than P17.7 million worth of dried marijuana leaves at a police checkpoint in Barangay Gambang Tuesday dawn.
Police described the arrested suspects as aged 24 and 25, and both residents of Paranaque City.
Personnel of the 1st Benguet Provincial Mobile force Company were conducting a checkpoint at sitio Gakian, Gambang when they noticed an approaching vehicle that made a quick turn and sped towards barangay Ampusongan.
The incident was immediately coordinated with the Bakun Municipal Police Station, 2nd Benguet Provincial Mobile Force Company and Provincial Intelligence Division.
The suspects attempted to escape from the responding police operatives but they were collared and arrested.
During the inspection of the vehicle, police were able to recover several sacks containing some 127 tubular forms of dried marijuana leaves weighing 127.67 kilos with a standard drug price of P15.24 million; a plain yellow sack containing 10.27 kilos of dried marijuana leaves with a standard drug price of P1.2 million, and a garbage bag containing 10.4 kilos of dried marijuana leaves and stalks with a standard drug price of P1.2 million.
