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TWO Chinese nationals on Tuesday were arrested while some P5.8 billion worth of shabu in a speedboat was seized in Paluan,\u00a0Occidental Mindoro.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n The identities of the arrested foreigners were being verified.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n The arrest came shortly after a speedboat being driven by the two developed engine trouble along the shoreline of Sitio Agbalite in Bgy. Harrison, Palun municipality around 3 p.m. Tuesday.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Local residents who tried to help the two foreign-looking speedboat passengers got suspicious when they failed to communicate with them either in English or Filipino. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n The duo later hurriedly got off the vessel and run towards the nearby forested area after they saw more people approaching them.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Village residents sought the attention of soldiers and militiamen from the Philippine Army\u2019s 76th<\/sup>\u00a0Infantry Battalion and 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Infantry Division, who rushed to the site. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Soldiers conducted a hot pursuit operation and arrested the two Chinese nationals.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Troopers discovered some 43 sacks containing the smuggled drugs aboard the vessel. Each sack carried around 30 kilograms of the \u201cpoor man\u2019s cocaine.\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Authorities theorized that the suspects have come from a \u201cmother ship\u201d and assigned to transport the shabu to a designated area where they will be met by \u201ccontacts\u201d until their speedboat run into trouble.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Charges for drug importation and smuggling were filed against the two suspects who are now undergoing questioning.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TWO Chinese nationals on Tuesday were arrested while some P5.8 billion worth of shabu in a speedboat was seized in Paluan, Occidental Mindoro. The identities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19105,"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\/19104"}],"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=19104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19106,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19104\/revisions\/19106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}