LUCENA CITY — Police arrested four suspected illegal coconut loggers and seized a van loaded with hot lumber in Quezon province on Saturday, police said Sunday.
The Quezon police office in a report said a team of policemen confiscated 548 pieces of freshly sawn coconut lumber while being transported aboard a van in Barangay (village) Pagaguasan in Unisan town around 5:40 p.m.
Police arrested Ronald Villasor and Leonora Almira after they failed to produce documents from the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) giving them authority to cut and transport the coconut lumber.
The seized illegally cut lumber is worth P35,620 in the underground market.
In Gumaca town, police also arr…
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