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Dogs to search for cocaine bricks in Samar


Fully-trained police dogs will be sent to Samar to help recover cocaine bricks that are part of the two tons of illegal drugs dumped by a drug syndicate last year. On Thursday, Director General Jesus Verzosa, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered the deployment of K-9 units to Samar and nearby areas to help recover cocaine bricks. More or less 470 kilos of cocaine, with a street value of P2.3 billion, have been recovered since news about the dumping of roughly two tons of the illegal drugs was reported in December last year. “The deployment of K-9 units will be a big help in recovering the remaining cocaine," said Verzosa. He urged local residents not to sell any illegal drugs they might recover. “They should not sell them because if they are arrested, the case that would be filed against them is non-bailable," he explained. On Wednesday, a certain Adelina Pidlaw turned over some two kilos of cocaine bricks to the local police in Dolores, Eastern Samar. Last month, five Samar residents landed in jail after they were caught with 33 kilos of cocaine bricks in a series of buy-bust operations in Borongan and nearby areas. A report from the Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Force (AID-SOTF) alleged that some residents have been selling the cocaine for P40,000 per kilo. The same report revealed that some of the cocaine bricks have already reached Metro Manila and nearby areas. Earlier, a police sergeant was collared for selling cocaine bricks in Pasig City while a couple was apprehended for selling two kilos of cocaine in Bacoor, Cavite. In December last year, a report from the United States revealed that some two tons of cocaine from South America en route to Hongkong were dumped off Samar province when the transporters sensed that the contrabands have already been compromised. Police anti-narcotics agents believe that many cocaine bricks have been recovered by local residents but most of them opted not to report these incidents to the police, with the intention of selling the illegal drugs. – VVP, GMANews.TV

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