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Cousins caught with P3.2M marijuana in Baguio

Artemio Dumlao - The Philippine Star

BAGUIO CITY – Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Cordillera (PDEA) seized more than P3.2 million worth of marijuana blocks about to be shipped to the illicit market.

At least 47 kilos of marijuana were seized from a repeat offender and his cohort-cousin during a buy-bust operation here Tuesday, the PDEA said.

Ten large blocks of dried fruiting tops and nine oval or tubular packs of dried stalks wrapped and bound in a tan-colored packaging tape and placed in a sack bag and traveling bag were supposed to be shipped to the lowlands by cousins Kenneth Lagadeo, 28 and Melchor Lagadeo, 25.

The contraband was valued at P3,208,000.00.

PDEA-Cordillera spokesperson Emily Fama said that Kenneth is a repeat drug law violator. During the arrest, Lagadeo identified himself as Ardie Ramos.

The cousins, who are natives of a known lair if marijuana cultivators in Badeo, Kibungan, Benguet, were collared at around 4 a.m. in Barangay San Roque, where they sold the marijuana bricks to an undercover PDEA agent.

PDEA added that Kenneth had been arrested on Apr. 5, 2009 along with a certain Jerry Adiwang with 2,909.90 grams of dried marijuana fruiting tops in bricks. The duo, however, was acquitted two years after and eventually released.

Satur Dayao, a cousin of Kenneth and Melchor, had been convicted and sentenced to a life term on Dec. 12, 2011 for the same offense.

Meanwhile, anti-narcotics agents also busted two marijuana suppliers from Bakun town in Benguet.

Nabbed were Olibrum Canias, 30 and J-pee Pacuz, 19, residents of Sitio Barbarit, Barangay Bagu in Bakun.

They were caught selling four huge blocks of marijuana bricks weighing 17,293 grams.

ARDIE RAMOS

BAKUN

BARANGAY BAGU

BARANGAY SAN ROQUE

BENGUET

DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY-CORDILLERA

EMILY FAMA

JERRY ADIWANG

KENNETH

KENNETH AND MELCHOR

KENNETH LAGADEO

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