INTERCEPTED. Navy personnel escort a motorboat loaded with some P6.6 million worth of smuggled cigarettes to the Romulo Espaldon Naval Station that houses the Naval Forces Western Mindanao (NFWM) headquarters in Zamboanga City. The shipment was seized Sunday (July 31, 2022) off Sulu province when the NFWM troops together with Bureau of Customs personnel launched a seaborne patrol after being tipped off of the contraband. (Photo courtesy of NFWM) ZAMBOANGA CITY - Personnel of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and Naval Forces Western Mindanao (NFWM) have apprehended a motorboat with five-man crew and loaded with PHP6.6 worth of smuggled cigarettes off Sulu province, a top NFWM official said Monday. Rear Adm. Toribio Adaci Jr., NFWM commander, said the shipment of smuggled cigarettes was seized around 3:45 a.m. Sunday, some two nautical miles east off Balod Island, Sulu. Adaci said the NFWM and Bureau of Customs (BOC) operatives launched maritime patrol following information about the shipment