P4.5 million kush abandoned at NAIA

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Inter-Agency Drug Interdiction Task Group confiscated yesterday five parcels, containing around 2.5 kilos of kush from Canada valued at P4.5 million, abandoned at the Central Mail Exchange Center of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).

The first parcel – sent from Deer Valley and consigned to Fritz Ang of Poblacion, Mandaluyong – was declared to hold a car seat cover. It contained 501 grams of dried leaves in two vacuum-sealed packs valued at P701,400.

The second parcel, also declared to contain a car seat cover, was shipped from 40 Stammers Drive in Ajax to Carl Jensen Ang of Sheridan Towers in Barangay Highway Hills, Mandaluyong. The parcel contained 500 grams of kush valued at P700,000.

The third parcel, declared to hold a customized coffee mug, contained 1,064 grams of kush valued at P1.5 million shipped from North York to Angelo Bryan Vitor of Angeles City.

The fourth parcel, declared to contain books, was shipped by Pandora Box from Baltimore to Steve Kian Ty Cortez of Quezon City. The parcel held 70 disposable vape pens, each suspected to contain one milliliter of cannabis oil, valued at P4,200.

The fifth parcel, supposed to hold “custom décor,” was shipped by Hobby Holics of Garden Grove, California to Leo Alvor of Mazaraga, Quezon City. The package contained 471 grams of kush with a street value of P659,400.

BOC-NAIA district collector Yasmin Mapa seized the abandoned parcels yesterday and turned them over to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency for the filing of charges.