Anti-Narcs agents seize over P408M shabu in Pampanga sting
A MAJOR anti-narcotics operation along the Northern Luzon Expressway in San Fernando City, Pampanga around 2 p.m. Thursday resulted in the seizure of some 60 kilograms of high-grade shabu worth P408 million and the arrested of a top drug target in the country, a report to Philippine National Police Officer-in-Charge, Lieutenant General Vicente D. Danao Jr. said.
PNP Drug Enforcement Group director, Brigadier Gen. Randy Q. Peralta said that arrested during the sting in front of the Mega Station along NLEX Kilometer 62 in Barangay San Felipe, San Fernando City was Hernani Loranya Cosumo.
“Initially, there was an estimated 60 kilograms of shabu worth P408 million recovered from the suspect. However, an inventory of the drug evidence at the scene is still ongoing,” the PNP-DEG director told the Journal Group at 3 in the afternoon.
The suspect was described as a 31-year old jobless resident of Block 16, Lot 12, Kingstown One Subdivision in Bgy. Bagumbong, Caloocan City who has been on the radar of the PNP-DEG for months already prior to his arrest.
Peralta said members of the DEG Special Operations Unit- National Capital Region and SOU3 3 conducted the sting with the support of the Regional Intelligence Division, Regional Drug Enforcement Unit and Regional Special Operations Group of the National Capital Region Police Office under Major Gen. Felipe R. Natividad, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency headed by Director General Wilkins M. Villanueva,the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency and the Pampanga Police Provincial Office.
Initially recovered from the suspect were the drugs he sold to an undercover officer of the PNP-DEG-NCR Special Operations Unit and the 10 bundles of boodle money topped by two marked P1,000 bills, an android phone he used in making contact with the poseur and assorted documents and identification cards.
The rest of the drugs concealed in two sacks were found inside a silver Hyundai Starex van with plate no. YFU-655 which was used by the ‘high-value target’ to transport the drugs. The vehicle was impounded by the PNP-DEG.
Peralta described the suspect as a member of a big-time drug syndicate involved in the large-scale trafficking of shabu in Metro Manila, Central Luzon and Calabarzon regions.
The suspect is now being investigated at the PNP-DEG headquarters in Camp Crame.
