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Fishermen discover P5.3-cocaine in Albay
- Source:https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/05/20/fishermen-discover-p5-3-cocaine-in-albay/
- Tuesday, May 21, 2019
- By Niño Luces
CAMP OLA, Albay – A brick of suspected cocaine worth about P5.3 million was found by two fishermen at the shores of Minaulang Palay, Barangay Calanaga, Rapu-Rapu town in Albay last Sunday.
Police Major Malu Calubaquib, spokesperson of Police Regional Office 5 (PRO-5), said Adonis Bellen y Bolaños, 59, and Alvin Bellen y Alfonso, 35, both fishermen and residents of Barangay Nagcalsot, Rapu-Rapu, Albay, found the illegal drug weighing at least one kilo at the rocky portion of the shore.
The illegal drug was turned over by the fishermen, accompanied by barangay officials, to the Rapu-Rapu Municipal Police Station (MPS) and then later turned over to Regional Crime Laboratory in Camp General Simeon Ola, in Legazpi City for examination.
According to Cotton Yuson-Talento, spokesperson of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Bicol, the recovered drug has an estimated street value of P5.3 million.