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PDEA nabs man after claiming parcel with P18.7-M ketamine in Clark

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Jun Malig

The pieces of evidence allegedly seized from the 26-year-old male claimant of a parcel containing P18.7 million worth of ketamine at the Port of Clark in Pampanga. (Photo courtesy of PDEA Region 3)

MABALACAT CITY, Pampanga – A man has been arrested after retrieving a parcel containing ketamine worth P18,725,000 at the Port of Clark inside the Clark Freeport Zone on Tuesday (October 27).

No other details were disclosed about the suspect who was described as a 26-year-old resident of Rodriguez town in Rizal, according to a report from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Luzon.

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The man was arrested at 12:20 p.m.

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PDEA said the parcel was transmitted from Amsterdam in The Netherlands on October 10.

The sender declared the parcel contents as sodium bicarbonate cleaning powder, commonly known as baking soda.

“Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic that has some hallucinogenic effects. It is classified as a dangerous drug under Republic Act No. 9165 (the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002),” PDEA said.

The operation was conducted by joint operatives of PDEA’s Pampanga office, the PDEA Clark International Airport Inter‑Agency Drug Interdiction Task Group, the Bureau of Customs at the Port of Clark, the Philippine National Police Aviation Security Unit 3, and PNP Drug Enforcement Group. /jpv

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