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BY KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ANGELES CITY \u2014 Over 71,000 imported butane canisters worth nearly P3 million on Monday were seized by the authorities in a raid at a warehouse in Bgy. Cutcut, Angeles City.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The operation <\/strong>dubbed OPLAN LIRA was carried out for violation of Republic Act 11592 (LPG Industry Regulation Act) issued by Hon. Erick A. Sadural, Presiding Judge of RTC Branch 116, Angeles City.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Operatives of the <\/strong>Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Regional Field Unit 3 (CIDG RFU3), together with the Angeles City police, implemented the search warrant against Arsys Trading Corporation located at Crismin Warehouse, Sitio Taguete, Bgy. Cutcut.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Seized were 71,680 pieces (1,960 boxes) of Maxsun butane canisters and business documents related to the warehouse\u2019s operations. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The seized items have an estimated market value of P2,944,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The suspects, identified as alias \u201cGan\u201d and Korean national alias \u201cChong,\u201d both residents of Bgy. Cutcut, Angeles City, were not present during the raid and remain at large.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Officials said the raid stemmed from verified information provided by a civilian informant about the unlawful trading and storage of imported butane products without the required authorization from the Department of Energy (DOE).<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The successful operation demonstrates the unwavering commitment of CIDG to strictly enforce the law and safeguard the public from hazardous and unauthorized petroleum products.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BY KEVIN GALANG ANGELES CITY — Over 71,000 imported butane canisters worth nearly P3 million on Monday were seized by the authorities in a raid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cidg-butane.jpg",1600,1600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cidg-butane-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cidg-butane-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cidg-butane-768x768.jpg",640,640,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cidg-butane-1024x1024.jpg",640,640,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cidg-butane-1536x1536.jpg",1536,1536,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cidg-butane.jpg",1600,1600,false],"kreeti-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cidg-butane-1280x720.jpg",1280,720,true],"kreeti-featured":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cidg-butane-1024x1024.jpg",1024,1024,true],"kreeti-medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cidg-butane-720x530.jpg",720,530,true],"kreeti-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cidg-butane-350x350.jpg",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Provincial<\/a>","tag_info":"Provincial","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406"}],"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=16406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16408,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406\/revisions\/16408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}