ZAMBOANGA CITY — Police held a minor and his companion after P1.8-million worth of smuggled cigarettes were found from them in waters off Sta. Cruz Island in Zamboanga City on Monday, Oct. 3.
Combined police units and Bureau of Customs personnel were conducting anti-smuggling operations when they spotted a jungkong (small wooden motorized boat commonly used as a smuggling vessel in the maritime borders of the Philippines, Sabah, Malaysia and Eastern Indonesia) with markings ‘Sy Adzrina Express’ off Sta.