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Another cocaine block washes ashore in Quezon

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 20 07:58 AM

Another box of cocaine washed ashore in Quezon province, police confirmed Wednesday, after similar drug packages were found in other areas.  Read more »

Transshipment or decoy? PDEA eyes 2 angles in 'floating cocaine' probe

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 18 10:07 AM

Several "floating cocaine" packages recently seized in the Philippines may be part of a drug shipment to neighboring countries or a diversionary tactic for meth smuggling, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency said Monday. Read more »

Authorities intercept package with firearms, ammo at NAIA

Raoul Esperas
Updated as of Feb 13 09:36 PM

Authorities are currently coordinating with DHL Cargo Company to identify the owner of the intercepted package.  Read more »

Sinaloa cartel in cahoots with Chinese syndicates for Philippine ops - PDEA

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 13 03:30 PM

The Sinaloa cartel, a multi-billion dollar Mexican drug empire, has teamed up with Chinese syndicates to smuggle narcotics into the country, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said Wednesday.  Read more »

'El Chapo' likely heading for Colorado prison where no one has escaped

Alex Dobuzinskis, Reuters
Posted at Feb 13 07:44 AM

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Mexican found guilty in a US court on Tuesday of running a criminal enterprise that smuggled drugs into the United States, is likely headed to a "supermax" prison where repeating his past escapes would be nearly impossible.   Read more »

Colombian vet who stuffed puppies with smuggled heroin, sent to prison

Jackie Botts, Reuters
Posted at Feb 08 07:58 AM

A Colombian veterinarian who surgically implanted liquid heroin inside live puppies to smuggle the drug into the United States was sentenced to 6 years in prison on Thursday. Read more »

Customs, pinaiimbestigahan ng Kamara ukol sa 'large-scale drug smuggling'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 07 02:19 AM

Naglatag din ng mga rekomendasyon ang mga kongresista para matigil ang pagpuslit ng shabu at large-scale smuggling sa bansa. Read more »

As Trump vows to build border wall, is US on verge of national emergency?

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 07 02:30 AM

ABS-CBN News' TJ Manotoc and Karmina Constantino talk about how analysts reacted to Trump's speech and share their thoughts on how Democrats might respond to the president's pronouncements. Read more »

May-ari ng 'shabu warehouse' sa Cavite iniimbestigahan din

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 04 07:19 PM

Iniimbestigahan ngayon ng Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency ang may-ari ng warehouse sa Tanza, Cavite, kung saan natagpuan ang nasa P1.9 bilyong halaga ng shabu. Read more »

El Chapo’s wife says mobster is ‘excellent’ husband, father

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 02 04:34 AM

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was accused of smuggling hundreds of tons of drugs into the United States over the past quarter-century. Read more »

2 timbog dahil sa 'smuggled' na mga damit sa ukay-ukay

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 17 08:59 PM

Nasa 130 kahon ng ukay-ukay items ang nasamsam ng NBI at Customs, kabilang ang mga package na donasyon na para sana sa mga biktima ng bagyong Yolanda. Read more »

2 bagong barko mula Pransiya, ibinida ng Coast Guard

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 17 02:41 AM

Gagamitin ito ng Philippine Coast Guard at Bureau of Customs para paigtingin ang operasyon kontra smuggling at illegal fishing Read more »

Kaanak ng 7 seamen na nakakulong sa Libya, humihingi ng tulong

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 15 11:14 PM

Labingpitong buwan nang nakakulong ang 7 seaman na pinaghihinalaang sangkot sa oil smuggling.  Read more »

4 'misdeclared' luxury vehicles from Japan busted in Cebu port

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 05 11:21 AM

Four luxury vehicles shipped via a container van were flagged by port officials in Cebu City, Saturday, based on an alert order issued for possible misdeclaration. Read more »

Dominguez orders DOF to brief new Customs chief on fuel marking project vs smuggling

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 24 04:12 PM

MANILA - Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III on Monday ordered his department to brief new Customs Chief Rey Leonardo Guerrero on the anti-smuggling, fuel marking and monitoring system set for implementation in early 2019.  Read more »

Halos 2,000 kilong galunggong mula China na 'may formalin' nasamsam

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 13 08:32 PM

Pinagbibili ng P580 ang kada kahon na may lamang 10 kilong isda.  Read more »

Shirts soaked in meth: Tourist almost duped into drug smuggling

Kyodo News
Posted at Dec 11 07:21 AM

TOKYO - Thai police on Monday announced the arrest of an Iranian man who delivered a suitcase filled with stimulant drugs to a Japanese man, who was duped over the Internet into thinking he could travel for free if he wrote a travel blog.   Read more »

PCG intercepts smuggled cigarettes in Zamboanga

Jewel Reyes, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 30 07:44 PM

ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) intercepted an estimated P300,000 worth of alleged smuggled cigarettes from a ship docked at the city’s port on Friday. Read more »

Ilang ahensiya, naglagda ng kasunduan laban katiwalian sa Customs

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 20 01:49 AM

Pirmado na ang kasunduan sa pagitan ng Bureau of Customs, Armed Forces of the Philippines, at Philippine Coast Guard. Read more »

Lapeña insists he did 'right thing' in case of ceramic tiles from China

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 13 07:41 PM

MANILA - Former Customs Commissioner Isidro Lapeña insisted that he did the "right thing" when he issued alert orders that covered more than a hundred containers of ceramic tiles from China that went missing last March. Read more »