Ex-Benguet town police chief probed on missing marijuana
La Trinidad, Benguet – Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Dionisio Santiago has ordered an independent investigation into the possible involvement of a former police chief of Kapangan town in the disappearance of marijuana bricks seized last June.
Records showed that a certain Robert Baludda, an alleged drug trafficker operating in Benguet and La Union, yielded at least 100 marijuana bricks weighing 100 kilos when he was arrested during the second week of June.
An hour later, Baludda was reportedly released allegedly in exchange for a promise to repair the kitchen of the Kapangan police station.
Benguet board member Rogelio Leon, a former mayor of Kapangan, initiated an investigation that reportedly found out that policemen had reported that they only seized 40 bricks or 40 kilos of marijuana bricks.
The Kapangan police, however, denied the allegations.
Chief Superintendent Eugene Martin, Cordillera police director, vowed that he will order an investigation after Capela and six other policemen were relieved from their posts a week ago.
Derreck Carreon, spokesman of the PDEA national headquarters, said they are also conducting their own “careful investigation” into the missing marijuana bricks.
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