By Ramon Efren R. Lazaro
CAMP ALEJO SANTOS, Bulacan --Speculations of unhampered
illegal logging operations in Bulacan were raised after illegally cut lumbers
were confiscated in Santa Maria
town.
Report
reaching Senior Supt. Fernando Mendez Jr., provincial police director of
Bulacan, said a Mitsubishi Fuso Aluminum closed van with license plate number
UTU-491 loaded with 51 pieces of illegally sawn lumbers with an approximate
volume of 1,204 board feet was accidentally discovered when it met an accident
in Santa Maria
town.
Investigation conducted by the personnel of Sta. Maria
police station showed that the van accidentally bumped a concrete fence located
along Macaiban Street
in Barangay Tumana Friday early morning.
Supt. Lailene Amparo, Santa Maria
police chief, identified the driver of the van as Robert Uy 66 years old and a
resident of 610 Raja Bago Street
, Tondo, Manila
, and has no pertinent document for his lumber cargo.
Amparo immediately coordinated with Alex Esber and Roderick
Vertudes from the Bulacan environmental and natural resources office for
assistance in the investigation concerning the suspected illegal lumbers.
Environmentalists believed that the illegally sawn lumbers
were poached from either the Ipo or Angat watershed areas.
The suspect is currently detained in Santa Maria police station and the van and
its cargo is temporarily under the custody of the local police.
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