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COTABATO CITY — Anti-narcotics agents seized three kilograms of dried marijuana in a parcel found using a drug detection dog in a warehouse of a forwarding firm in Polomolok, South Cotabato on Wednesday.

Benjamin C. Recites, director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-12 (PDEA-12), told reporters on Thursday that the package from a sender in Quiapo in Metro Manila was consigned to a resident of General Santos City, now subject of an extensive manhunt by PDEA-12 agents and policemen from units of the Police Regional Office-12 (PRO-12.

Mr. Recites said they learned of the supposed delivery in General Santos City of the package, containing six compressed bricks of dried marijuana leaves, worth P360,000, from confidential informants, enabling them to promptly carry out the interdiction operation with the help of the Polomolok Municipal Police Station and operatives from PRO-12 units.

Mr. Recites said the operation that resulted in the confiscation of the six marijuana bricks was also assisted by the Philippine Coast Guard Intelligence Group-Southern Mindanao. — John Felix M. Unson

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