Camp Ruperto K Kangleon, Palo, Leyte  - a total of  103 bricks of cocaine valued at Php  515,000,000.00 were recovered by the combined efforts of various law enforcement agencies of the government: the members of Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Force Team, Regional Intelligence Division, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency 8,  K9 Team of Philippine Coast Guard, Borongan  City Police  Station among others, under the strict supervision of Police Regional Director Chief Superintendent Rey Laquihon Lañada. 

Lañada said that we are firmly implementing “Oplan Coke”, intensifying our campaign  against illegal drugs .  In fact, I am encouraging the concerned citizens in Samar through meetings and local media interviews to surrender, to report or give information about the cocaine that were washed ashore in the coast of Eastern Samar; least they will be arrested if they will be caught selling any illegal drugs they have recovered and the case that would be filed against them is non-bailable, he added.

Moreover, he assures the public that the PNP will be giving a monetary reward and a sack of rice from Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency 8 for every brick of cocaine turned over to PNP.

A brick of cocaine is estimated to be one kilo and cost P5 million each.