AUTHORITIES have arrested two people and seized some P16.6 million shipment worth of contraband in an anti-smuggling operation in Zamboanga City, the police said Sunday, August 25, 2024.
The Police Regional Office (PRO)-Zamboanga Peninsula did not release the identities of the two arrested persons except to say they are aged 37 and 50 and all males.
The PRO-Zamboanga Peninsula said they were arrested by joint personnel of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and Regional Intelligence Division (RID)-Zamboanga Peninsula in anti-smuggling operations around 7 a.m. Thursday, August 22, at the port of Zamboanga City.