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BY KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n PULILAN, Bulacan \u2014 Police on Thursday arrested a Chinese national and confiscated some P16.6 million worth of uncertified lighters in raid at a warehouse in Bgy. Sta. Peligrina, this town.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Members of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-Regional Field Unit 3 (CIDG-RFU 3) launched the operation under \u201cOplan Megashopper\u201d in line with the 7-Point Agenda of acting PNP chief Lt. Gen. Jose Melencio C. Nartatez Jr.. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Seized were 3,320 boxes containing 3,320,000 pieces of Yowant brand lighters without required Import Commodity Clearance (ICC) and Philippine Standard (PS) marks from the Department of Trade and Industry-Bureau of Philippine Standards (DTI\u2013BPS), which was in violation of Republic Act 7394 or the Consumer Act of the Philippines.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Aside from the lighters, recovered from the warehouse were assorted delivery receipts, BIR and DTI registrations, and a digital video recorder.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The CIDG said the raid stemmed from information provided by a civilian informant about the storage and distribution of uncertified lighters in the area.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe CIDG remains firm in its duty to protect the public against unlawful trade practices and to ensure that only safe and certified products reach Filipino consumers,\u201d said CIDG RFU 3 regional chief Col. Grant A. Gollod.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The arrested warehouse manager and the seized items are now under police custody for documentation and further legal action.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BY KEVIN GALANG PULILAN, Bulacan — Police on Thursday arrested a Chinese national and confiscated some P16.6 million worth of uncertified lighters in raid at a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16669,"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\/aje23bju.png",1070,1029,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aje23bju-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aje23bju-300x289.png",300,289,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aje23bju-768x739.png",640,616,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aje23bju-1024x985.png",640,616,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aje23bju.png",1070,1029,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aje23bju.png",1070,1029,false],"kreeti-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aje23bju-1070x720.png",1070,720,true],"kreeti-featured":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aje23bju-1024x985.png",1024,985,true],"kreeti-medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aje23bju-720x530.png",720,530,true],"kreeti-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aje23bju-350x350.png",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\/16668"}],"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=16668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16670,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16668\/revisions\/16670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}