Police seized more than 100 grams of suspected shabu hidden inside a parcel at a courier warehouse in Tagbilaran City, authorities said.
The Tagbilaran City Police Station, coordinating with the Talibon Municipal Police Station, recovered two heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets containing a white crystalline substance believed to be shabu.
The drugs were concealed inside a car cover at the J&T Express warehouse in Barangay Dao.
Police said the operation began after J&T’s hub received information from Talibon police that a parcel addressed to a Talibon resident was suspected of containing contraband.
Although an initial inspection by a police K9 unit turned up negative, authorities opened the parcel based on what they described as credible information, and the suspected illegal drugs were found inside.
The evidence was photographed, marked and inventoried before being turned over to the station investigator in accordance with Philippine National Police chain-of-custody procedures.
The specimens will be sent to the Bohol Forensics Unit for qualitative and quantitative examination to confirm the substance’s identity and weight.
Investigators are continuing to identify the sender, the true owner of the parcel and others who may be linked to the shipment.
Police Lt. Col. Joey Mallare Bicoy, TCPS chief, said the station will continue strengthening its campaign against illegal drugs through close coordination and intelligence-driven operations.
In a related news, police arrested Tubigon’s top wanted person and, in a separate follow-up operation just 20 minutes later, another wanted individual, both facing charges under the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
The Tubigon Police Station’s OPLAN Tracker Team, working with the Police Regional Office 7 Provincial Intelligence Unit, arrested a 36-year-old single man from Barangay Centro, Tubigon, at 12:10 a.m. July 1. He was identified by police as Tubigon’s top wanted person at the municipal level, arrested under a warrant issued by Branch 1 of the Seventh Judicial Region in Tubigon for violation of Republic Act 9165.
At 12:30 a.m., the same unit arrested a 45-year-old married man, also a resident of Barangay Centro, under a separate warrant issued by Branch 47 of the Seventh Judicial Region, also for violation of RA 9165.
Both suspects remain in custody at the Tubigon Police Station pending further legal proceedings.