Lucena City, Quezon Province | INQUIRER FILES
LUCENA CITY — Police on Sunday intercepted a truck full of illegally qyiuarried sand taken from a river in Infanta town in Quezon province, police said Monday.
The Quezon police said in a report that local cops and Department of Environment and Natural Resources operatives flagged down at 1:20 p.m. a mini dump truck being driven by “Jay” in Barangay Pilaway.
The driver failed to show a permit from the Quezon Provincial Mining Regulatory Board (PRMB) for the quarry materials.
The suspect will be charged of violating the Philippine Mining Act of 1995.
On April 26, Quezon Gov. Angelina Tan tasked the PMRB and the Provincial Government’s Environment and Natural Resources Office to ensure that no illegal quarry operations are conducted in any part of the province. INQ
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