Quezon fisher recovers pack of suspected cocaine

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LUCENA CITY – A fisherman discovered a brick of suspected cocaine along the shore of Perez island town in Quezon province, police said.

A councilor from Barangay Pambuhan tipped off local police on Friday morning that fisherman Jovenson Etorma, found a substance wrapped in thick packaging along the coast of the said barangay on Thursday afternoon, Colonel Audie Madrdieo, Quezon police chief, said in a report.

The pack, weighing almost one kilo, was subsequently surrendered to the local police station.

Authorities sent the package to the Quezon police headquarters in Camp Nakar in Lucena City for laboratory examination.

It was not the first time that suspected cocaine washed up on the province’s shores.

In April last year, fishers from the said island town in Lamon Bay facing the Pacific Ocean, found a total of 28 kilos of cocaine, worth P280 million, and 16.5 liters of liquid chemical that could make about 13 kilos of cocaine worth P130 million.

Another group of Quezon fishers also recovered in the area a “sophisticated, high-tech” tracking device used in monitoring drug shipments.

Last February, a 15-year-old boy found a brick of cocaine weighing more than a kilogram also in Mauban.