PCG: Joint elements from Philippine Coast Guard, Philippine National Police and Task Force Zamboanga successfully apprehended two closed wing van trucks loaded with more or less 1,200 sacks of smuggled rice from Sabah with the estimated market value of Php 3.6M at RT Lim Boulevard in Zamboanga City last Saturday, November 03.

An information was received by the Coast Guard from the 11th Infantry Battalion, Task Force Zamboanga that there was loading of smuggled rice to unknown van truck.

The team immediately conducted a maritime patrol at Taha Wharf, Baliwasan Seaside in Zamboanga but yielded negative result.

At around 11:40PM the same day, the team sighted and apprehended two closed wing van trucks with plate number KVY-2980 driven by Mr. Roberto Doldoa Y Budlong and with temporary plate number 030110 driven by Mr. Raymond Requinto y Baladin at RT Lim Boulevard near Zamboanga City State Polytechnic College.

Subsequently, the apprehended drivers and trucks with cargoes of rice were turned-over to the Bureau of Customs in Zamboanga for proper disposition.