{"id":16406,"date":"2025-09-17T00:15:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=16406"},"modified":"2025-09-17T00:15:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:15:38","slug":"cidg-confiscates-over-71k-imported-butane-canisters-in-angeles-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/cidg-confiscates-over-71k-imported-butane-canisters-in-angeles-city\/","title":{"rendered":"CIDG CONFISCATES OVER 71K IMPORTED BUTANE CANISTERS IN ANGELES CITY"},"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>ANGELES CITY \u2014 Over 71,000 imported butane canisters worth nearly P3 million on Monday were seized by the authorities in a raid at a warehouse in Bgy. Cutcut, Angeles City.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The operation <\/strong><strong>dubbed OPLAN LIRA was carried out for violation of Republic Act 11592 (LPG Industry Regulation Act) issued by Hon. Erick A. Sadural, Presiding Judge of RTC Branch 116, Angeles City.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Operatives of the <\/strong><strong>Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Regional Field Unit 3 (CIDG RFU3), together with the Angeles City police, implemented the search warrant against Arsys Trading Corporation located at Crismin Warehouse, Sitio Taguete, Bgy. Cutcut.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seized were 71,680 pieces (1,960 boxes) of Maxsun butane canisters and business documents related to the warehouse\u2019s operations.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The seized items have an estimated market value of P2,944,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The suspects, identified as alias \u201cGan\u201d and Korean national alias \u201cChong,\u201d both residents of Bgy. Cutcut, Angeles City, were not present during the raid and remain at large.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Officials said the raid stemmed from verified information provided by a civilian informant about the unlawful trading and storage of imported butane products without the required authorization from the Department of Energy&nbsp;(DOE).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The successful operation demonstrates the unwavering commitment of CIDG to strictly enforce the law and safeguard the public from hazardous and unauthorized petroleum products.<\/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 ANGELES CITY &mdash; Over 71,000 imported butane canisters worth nearly P3 million on Monday were seized by the authorities in a raid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16408,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406\/revisions\/16408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}