JOINT police and military troops intercepted on Saturday, March 9, a 10-wheeler truck loaded with more than a thousand sacks of smuggled rice in Zamboanga City.
Chief Inspector Helen Galvez, Police Regional Office (PRO) in Zamboanga Peninsula information officer, said the shipment was intercepted at around 5 p.m. at a joint police and military checkpoint in Barangay Baliwasan.
Truck driver Maverick Louie Molina, 24, presented an expired importation permit for the 1,300 sacks of rice on board the truck, Galvez said.
Both the truck and its cargo were impounded and placed under the custody of Police Station 11.
Galvez said the confiscated rice shipment will be turned over to the Bureau of Customs for proper disposition. (Bong Garcia/VoxPop Philippines)