{"id":123241,"date":"2017-10-12T03:40:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T07:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=123241"},"modified":"2017-10-12T03:40:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T07:40:06","slug":"pdea-destroys-p10-6-m-worth-of-shabu-chemicals-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/12\/pdea-destroys-p10-6-m-worth-of-shabu-chemicals-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"PDEA destroys P10.6-M worth of shabu chemicals, equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109266\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PDEA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109266\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PDEA.jpg\" alt=\"Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency. (PNA photo)\" width=\"600\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PDEA.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PDEA-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Thursday destroyed a total of PHP10.67 million worth of controlled precursors and essential chemicals (CPECs), together with laboratory equipment intended for the production of methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu.<\/p>\n<p>PDEA Director General Aaron Aquino said destroyed through chemical treatment were 228 liters of liquid chemicals composed of xylene chemicals, hydrochloric acid, chloroform, pytridine, benzaldehyde and ethanol worth PHP204,082.<\/p>\n<p>Also destroyed were 3,814,070 grams of solid chemicals composed of caustic soda\/sodium hydroxide, palladium, iodine, calcium chloride, red phosphorous, sodium acetate, barium sulfate, sodium sulfate, copper (II) sulfate pentahydrate and caffeine worth PHP9,446,436.<\/p>\n<p>Assorted laboratory equipment with an estimated value of PHP1,020,744 that were confiscated during anti-drug operations were smashed to prevent them from being used again.<\/p>\n<p>The destruction activity was held at the Green Planet Management, Incorporated (GPMI) in Barangay Punturin, Valenzuela City, a Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) accredited treatment facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPDEA continues to regularly destroy illegal drugs, CPECs and laboratory equipment right before the public, thus allaying any misconception that these pieces of drug and non-drug evidence are being recycled or peddled back in the streets,\u201d Aquino said.<\/p>\n<p>Atty. Nilo Geonzon, who represented the event&#8217;s guest of honor and speaker, Surigao del Norte 2nd District Rep. Robert Ace Barbers, led the destruction ceremony of the chemicals and non-drug evidence recently ordered by the court to be destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Key officials of PDEA, representatives from the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB), non-government organizations (NGOs), and barangay officials witnessed the destruction.<\/p>\n<p>The destruction is in compliance with the requirements of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, and Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) Regulation No.1 series of 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Thursday destroyed a total of PHP10.67 million worth of controlled precursors and essential &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":109266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[27394,27393,27395,12302,3816],"class_list":["post-123241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-aaron-aquino","tag-controlled-precursors-and-essential-chemicals","tag-nilo-geonzon","tag-philippine-drug-enforcement-agency","tag-shabu","mauthors-christopher-lloyd-caliwan","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}