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A TOTAL of 71 kilograms of suspected shabu, three kilograms of marijuana, 55 ecstasy tablets, and other illegal drugs, totaling P489,415,611.42 were destroyed at the thermal facility of Cosmopolitan Funeral Homes on Junquera Street, Cebu City, on Thursday, November 14, 2024, with permission from the court.This is the most narcotics destroyed since 2017 and the 14th time that the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas .
In order to use them as evidence in the continuing trials, the courts obtained samples from the portions of illegal drugs that were seized between 2003 and 2024. According to Alex Tablate, head of PDEA 7, major drug players now import shabu from abroad, mainly from Myanmar and Afghanistan.Tablate described the smugglers' new tactics as using ships to drop the drugs at sea and these will be located and retrieved by someone with the help of GPS devices.
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