10-kg dried marijuana leaves seized in Naga City

Seized marijuana (INQUIRER FILE PHOTO/ NIÑO JESUS ORBETA)

Seized marijuana:  In a previous buy-bust, over 20  kilos of marijuana were seized by cops in  a single operation (INQUIRER FILE PHOTO/ NIÑO JESUS ORBETA)

LEGAZPI CITY, Albay — Police arrested a woman from Baguio City for selling 10 kilograms of dried marijuana leaves to undercover agents in Naga City in Camarines Sur province on Thursday.

PO1 Evan Karl Cariño, case investigator of the Naga police, said Lorlyn Llones, 36, was arrested at the Bicol Central Station in Barangay Triangulo, Naga at 2:30 a.m.

Recovered from Llones were 10 bricks of dried marijuana, packed in a box, which she sold to PO3 Dennis Altez, who acted as a buyer.

Cariño said Llones came from Baguio and went purposely to Naga to deliver the marijuana leaves.

Llones was charged with violation of Republic Act No. 9165 (Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002).  SFM

Marijuana. AP file photo

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