Cops seize P275,000 worth of marijuana from Baguio

Marijuana. AP FILE

Police arrested two alleged drug traffickers and seized some 15 kilos of marijuana worth P275,000 from Baguio City in a buy-bust operation in Quezon City on Monday.

Suspects Francis Nepomuceno and Michael Gontinias were arrested by the police after the bust along A. Bonifacio Drive in Balintawak at about 1:30 a.m., a police report said.

Police said the due tried to flee in a getaway car after sensing their buyer was a police officer, but were cornered by authorities along Mayon Street in Laloma after an almost five-kilometer chase.

The suspects are members of a drug syndicate that transports drugs from Baguio City and operates in Metro Manila and Nueva Ecija, according to authorities.

Police said Nepomuceno and Gontinias were under surveillance for two-months before the arrest.

Recovered from the scene were dried marijuana leaves and P275 used as buy-bust money.

Drug charges are being prepared against the suspects. /cbb