00:00 More than P100 million worth of cocaine and marijuana were found in the Eastern Samar.
00:11 They were found in a Balikbayan box in a pier in Manila.
00:15 Chino Gaston was there.
00:21 Instead of fish, a fisherman caught a bag full of plastic bags in the sea of Barangay Tangbo in Arteche, Eastern Samar.
00:30 The contents were 20 bricks of cocaine.
00:34 Black plastic with 3 red letters "Z" was wrapped in high-end illegal drugs weighing up to 25 kilos.
00:42 The amount of the drugs was possibly P125 million.
00:48 In the neighboring town of San Policarpio, some drugs that can be used to make illegal drugs were turned over.
00:55 Some of them were recovered in the sea of a fisherman on February 8.
01:01 Since 2009, more than 250 bricks of cocaine have been recovered in the sea of Eastern Samar.
01:09 PNP reported that it came from South America and the Philippines is making it a transshipment point.
01:15 Drug smuggling, drug trafficking entails an elaborate funding from a drug syndicate.
01:24 So it's a possibility that there are foreign drug traffickers that infiltrated the Philippine market.
01:34 It is said that the PNP Maritime Group and the Philippine Coast Guard are patrolling the wide sea even though it has been stopped.
01:43 History will tell us that illegal drugs like this are being used.
01:48 Not only cocaine, even shabu, not only here in Eastern Samar,
01:52 even during our time, early 2000s, we were caught in Sambales, in Quezon.
02:01 We are really using it.
02:03 We need to intensify our international cooperation.
02:08 But even in the pier, there are drugs being smuggled like the one found in the Bat of Pedea.
02:13 Two Balikbayon boxes contain a drum and bed sheets or beddings containing marijuana.
02:20 And three boxes of cereal containing high-grade marijuana.
02:25 It's worth almost 20 million pesos.
02:29 For GMA Integrated News, Chino Gaston, 24 Hours.
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