Police in the town of Cagdianao had discovered blocks of cocaine on the shore of Sitio Habongan, Dinagat, as early as Tuesday last week. Police in San Isidro town, Surigao del Norte, found 27 bricks of cocaine on Thursday, which also led to follow-up operations on Friday. Links to polsADVERTISEMENTOverall, more than 70 blocks of cocaine have been found in the operations. A Surigao del Norte lawmaker on Saturday called on Philippine antidrug authorities to dig deeper into the links to narcopoliticians of the cocaine blocks. Rep. Robert Ace Barbers on Sunday asked the PNP and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency to track down the intended recipients of the 77 cocaine blocks.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 17, 2019 21:22 UTC