Police identified the suspects as Omair Dirindigun, 25, and Sacaroding Sarip, 21, residents of Barangay 5, San Carlos City.
Police Major Ryan Villasario, deputy chief of the San Carlos City Police Station, said the suspects were taken into custody after they failed to present documents declaring the legality of the 390 reams of cigarettes inside their vehicle in a police checkpoint on CL Ledesma Ave., Barangay 1, on Wednesday, August 23.
Villasario said that according to the suspects, they were just asked by someone to transport the cigarettes but they did not reveal the identity of the person.Villasario said they are probing if this incident could be linked to the P4-million smuggled cigarettes that were seized by the Bureau of Internal Revenue in Barangay 5 on July 13.
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