Northern Police District police, with the help of the Manila Police District, seized 37 kilograms of marijuana from two teenagers during a buy-bust operation in Tondo, Manila, on Tuesday afternoon.
Police identified the suspects as Celedonio Sorio, alias Doncel, 18, single, and Arnel Laparan, alias Nel Nel, 19, tricycle driver, and a fellow resident of GK Village, Baseco Compound, Tondo, Manila.
The NPD-Drug Enforcement Unit reported they carried out an anti-drug operation alongside MPD-Station 5 at the suspects’ area around 4 pm.
The operation was conducted after several drug suspects who were first arrested in San Miguel, Pasig City, where five kilograms of marijuana were seized on December 24, tipped the police that Sorio and Laparan are also selling marijuana.
Police identified the suspects and were able to trade to buy marijuana. Police immediately arrested the two suspects when the sale to the poseur buyer was carried out.
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37 kilos of marijuana seized from teenagers
Authorities confiscated 36 large bricks, two medium-size bricks, 28 small plastic sachets containing dried marijuana, a plastic sachet of kush, or high-grade marijuana, a P1,000 marked money combined with 12 boodle money, a cellular phone used in transactions, and drug paraphernalia from the suspects.
A total of 37 kilograms of marijuana worth more than four million pesos were seized from the suspects.
Police are now conducting investigations to determine the suspects’ source of illegal drugs.
The two suspects are now detained in the NPD-DEU Custodial Cell and are facing charges of violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 at the Manila Prosecutor’s Office.