Antinarcotics agents are looking at two angles in the consecutive incidents in which cocaine blocks were found floating on the sea in at least three areas across the archipelago last week. ADVERTISEMENTBlocks of cocaine worth millions of pesos were found floating off Camarines Norte and Siargao, and Dinagat islands in recent days. Aquino noted that there had been 13 incidents in which fishermen found blocks of cocaine floating off the country’s coasts since 2018. And if shabu is also being smuggled by sea, why aren’t we finding floating shabu, just cocaine?” he said. Bernard Banac, the PNP spokesperson, on Monday said he agreed with the PDEA assessment that the floating cocaine could be a decoy.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 18, 2019 21:33 UTC