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PNP-DEG seize nearly P1.4M shabu, nab 6 in countryside ops

January 19, 2025 Alfred P. Dalizon 136 views

A STRING of anti-narcotics operations in the countryside conducted by agents of the Philippine National Police Drug Enforcement Group led to the arrest of six of their targets and the seizure of nearly P1.4 million worth of shabu, PNP-DEG Officer-in-Charge, Colonel Rolando B. Cuya Jr. said yesterday.

The 1st identified as alias ‘Nono,’ a 45-year old female ‘high-value target’ in Central Visayas was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Purok Everlasting, Bgy. Zone 1 in Talisay City in Negros Occidental on Thursday, the official said.

The suspect yielded 60 grams of the so-called ‘poor man’s cocaine’ valued at P408,000.

A 2nd identified only as ‘Jun,46, a resident of Cauayan City in Isabela yielded a gram of shabu worth P6,800 during a sting along the Maharlika Highway in Barangay Alinam shortly after noon Friday.

A 3rd who happened to be a 52-year old male ‘HVT’ from Luuk, Sulu yielded two heat-sealed plastic sachets containing 100 grams of shabu worth P680,000 during an entrapment operation in Xanadue Subdivision in Baliwasan Times, Bgy. Baliwasan, Zamboanga City on the same day.

The 4th identified as alias ‘Ruth’ yielded some five grams of shabu valued at more than P35,000 during an anti-narcotics raid in her residence in Purok 1-A, Bgy. Cabidianan in Nabunturan, Davao de Oro also last Thursday.
PNP-DEG operatives stormed the suspect’s house on the strength of a warrant for illegal possession of drugs issued by Judge Regina Sison-Montiel of the Nabunturan Regional Trial Court in Davao de Oro.

The 5th who was also tagged as an ‘HVT’ was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Bgy. Manapa in Buenaista, Agusan del Norte last Wednesday which led in the confiscation of 15 grams of shabu worth at least P102,000.

The suspect was described as a 46-year old male resident of Bgy. San Vicente in Butuan City.

The 6th described as a 44-year old drug target in Cagayan Valley was arrested in a buy-bust operation along L. Puzon Street in Bgy. San Gabriel in Tuguegarao City, Cagayan also on Wednesday.

Recovered from the suspect’s possession were three plastic sachets containing 12 grams of shabu valued at P81,600.

All arrested suspects are facing criminal charges for sale and possession of prohibited drugs under Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, said Col. Cuya.

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