{"id":14223,"date":"2025-06-03T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=14223"},"modified":"2025-06-04T00:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T16:45:03","slug":"p1-5b-floating-shabu-found-off-zambales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/p1-5b-floating-shabu-found-off-zambales\/","title":{"rendered":"P1.5B FLOATING SHABU FOUND OFF ZAMBALES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>BY KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>BATAAN fishermen<\/strong> <strong>found some P1.5 billion worth of shabu floating off Masinloc, Zambales, authorities reported on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The illegal drugs, stuffed in 10 sacks, were discovered by fishers on Thursday and were turned over to the authorities on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Regional Office 3 is determining the origin of the contraband as it commended the fishermen for turning over the banned substance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>An investigation showed fishermen were sailing &nbsp;the &nbsp;high seas of West Bajo de Masinloc in Zambales, at about 5:30 p.m. on Thursday when they spotted the floating sacks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The fishermen approached the sacks, initially believing they contained food packs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>They gathered the sacks and, upon opening, they discovered that it contained &nbsp;suspected shabu.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The banned substance in&nbsp;222 assorted vacuum-sealed transparent plastic packs&nbsp;weighing a kilo each <strong>will undergo forensic examination and confirmation at the PDEA RO 3 laboratory<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY KEVIN GALANG BATAAN fishermen found some P1.5 billion worth of shabu floating off Masinloc, Zambales, authorities reported on Monday. The illegal drugs, stuffed in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14234,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14223\/revisions\/14234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}