Camp Major Bado Dangwa, La Trinidad, Benguet – A farmer was arrested for allegedly transporting 7.8 million pesos worth of marijuana in a checkpoint in Tabuk City, Kalinga, in the evening of April 25.
PCOL. Davy Vicente Limmong, Provincial Director of Kalinga PPO, identified the arrested suspect as Michael Macad Assudo, 35, farmer and a resident of Tinglayan, Kalinga.
Limmong said they received information from a confidential informant regarding an individual in a motorcycle transporting suspected marijuana from Loccong, Tinglayan, Kalinga. The police here established a checkpoint along National Road at Calanan, Tabuk City.
While conducting checkpoint, operatives spotted a Honda XRM125 motorcycle with no plate number that matches the description given by the informant and as it approaches the designated checkpoint, the motorcycle suspiciously turned back to evade it. This prompted the operatives to pursue the motorcycle until it stopped along the road at Purok 3, Brgy Bado Dangwa.
With the aid of a responding Narcotic Drug Dog of Kalinga PPO PECU, the box loaded in the back of the motorcycle was searched that led to the discovery of 65 pieces of dried marijuana bricks weighing 65 kg with a Standard Drug Price (SDP) of P7,800,000.00.
Assudo and confiscated items were brought to Tabuk City Police Station for proper documentation before going to Kalinga Crime Laboratory Office for examination. The suspect is facing charges for violation of Comprehensive Drug acts of 2002. (Joseph Manzano, RPN DZBS Baguio OIC | PROCOR RPIO)
