PDEA seizes 40 kilos marijuana at Baguio transport terminal

MANILA, Philippines -  Authorities arrested a fruit vendor for yielding 44 bricks of dried marijuana leaves at a transport terminal in Baguio City, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said on Wednesday.

PDEA director general Arturo Cacdac Jr. said that the dried marijuana leaves which weighed 41.475 kilograms was confiscated from Antonette Campiwer Churping, a native of Sadanga, Mountain Province and resident of Pinget, Baguio City.

Belated reports said that last December 4, around 7 p.m., combined elements of PDEA Regional Office-Cordillera Administrative Region (PDEA RO-CAR) and the local police arrested Churping after she was caught transporting the marijuana bricks in a bus and jeepney terminal in Slaughter Compound, Barangay Sto. Niño, Baguio City.

"The seized illegal drug was neatly concealed inside a multi-colored nylon bag of assorted clothes, a box of ripe bananas and a sack of dried peanuts," Cacdac said.

A case for violation of Section 5 (Transportation of Dangerous Drugs), Article II of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, is now being prepared for filing before the Baguio City Prosecutor’s Office against Churping, who is now in the custody of PDEA RO-CAR.