Customs officials at the Ninoy Aquino international Airport (NAIA) arrested newly-arrived Filipino passenger from Bangkok, Thailand at NAIA Terminal 3 for carrying 1,100 grams of marijuana kush concealed in a plastic marble pot with a street value of P1,540,000.00.
Customs assistant deputy collector for Passengers Services Mark Almase, in his report to NAIA customs district collector Yasmin Mapa, said that the Filipino passenger identified as Magnolia Paaño Buenio, 34, of Molino, Bacoor Cavite on board Cebu Pacific flight 5J930 from Bangkok was arrested by customs Inter-agency Drug Interdiction Task Group (IADITG) after her checked-in luggage was found to contain marijuana Kush when it underwent X-ray scanning and physical examination.
Almase said that Buenio’s luggage contained one brown box with one plastic marble pot wrapped in a styrofoam, containing 1,100 grams of marijuana Kush when examined in the passenger’s presence.
Buenio was arrested in violation of Section 4 of Article ll of RA 9165 and the drug evidence were submitted to PDEA for laboratory services and inquest proceedings, Almase said.
