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NBI Director Judge Jaime B. Santiago (Ret.) identified the arrested suspects as Ace dela Cruz Garcia and Reginald Ventura Llanto.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The two were charged for violation of Sections 4 (d), 12 (j) and 18 of Republic Act 11900 otherwise known as \u201cVaporized Nicotine and Non-Nicotine Products Regulation Act.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Santiago said the case stemmed from information received by the NBI-CAVIDO North on the alleged sale and distribution of vaporized nicotine and non-nicotine products that are non-compliant with the registration requirements prescribed by RA 11900.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A certification was issued by the Department of Trade and Industry – Office for the Special Mandate on Vaporized Nicotine and Non-Nicotine Products (DTI-OSMV), which revealed that the vape products submitted were considered unregulated and substandard.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thus, an entrapment operation was set, together with DTI personnel, to arrest the suspects.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n On July 02, 2025, after several hours of transaction and waiting, the entrapment was finally consummated.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The suspects were arrested and several boxes of vape products were recovered from them.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Seized during the operation were 49 master cases which contain 8,200 pieces of vape pod and 1,600 pieces of vape device.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n An inventory conducted by the agents of NBI-CAVIDO-North and DTI personnel estimated the \u00a0value of the seized vape products at P3,920,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The arrested suspects were presented for inquest proceedings before the Para\u00f1aque City Prosecutor\u2019s Office.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OPERATIVES led by the National Bureau of Investigation North District Office (CAVIDO-North) arrested two men and seized some P3.9 million of vape products in a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14966,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962\/revisions\/14966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/vm8ix7nr-1024x547.png\")
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