It’s an open secret that people go up to Luzon’s highlands for weed.
Stoners and drug distributors alike regularly get caught there, just like this arrest in Mountain Province on Monday involving four tourists with PHP850,000 (US$15,943.24) worth of marijuana.
According to The Philippine Daily Inquirer, those arrested were identified as professionals from Laguna and Manila: freelance graphic artist Edward Francis Cea, 26; call center agent Christine de Guzman, 29; former hospital employee Carla Amor Ong, 30; and businessman Jericho Perez, 22.
Found in their possession were 24 marijuana bricks and four tubular marijuana stalks that weighed 26 kilos, the Manila Bulletin reported.
Authorities found the four suspects in Cable Cafe in Bontoc, Mountain Province after receiving a tip.
Based on police investigations, the four suspects came from Buscalan, Tinglayan, Kalinga, where the weed is believed to have come from (They don’t call it the highlands for nothing).
The suspects are believed to have been transporting it for sale in the lowlands.
They were brought to the Cordillera police headquarters and were charged for violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
