TWO buy-bust operations, spearheaded by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, have yielded P100 million worth of shabu in Metro Manila’s cities of Pasig and Taguig.
PDEA director-general Arturo Cacdac Jr. said the entrapment operations took place in Taguig and Pasay, only three hours apart on Dec. 12.
Just after lunchtime, operatives of PDEA Special Enforcement Service, led by director Ismael Fajardo Jr., along with the Philippine National Police-Special Operations Unit-3 Anti-Illegal Drugs Group nabbed Reyniel Macahidhid, 24, of Purok 1, Barobo, Surigao del Sur, for selling one kilo of shabu with a street value of P5,000,000 to a poseur-buyer in the open parking of a mall in FTI, Taguig.
Confiscated from Macahidhid’s possession were nine packs of suspected shabu weighing approximately nine kilograms worth P45,000,000 found inside his silver Nissan Sentra, one mobile phone, various identification cards and documents.
Three hours later, along Diokno Street and Coral Way in Pasay City, the same operating units arrested Chiu Chien Chun, alias Qui Jan Jiun, a Chinese, in a buy-bust which yielded 10 kilos of suspected shabu worth P50,000,000 and confiscated a black Chevrolet Tahoe wagon and a black pouch bag containing assorted mobile phones, keys, cellular SIMs and load cards.
Macahidhid and Chun are facing cases for violation of Section 5 (Sale of Dangerous Drugs) and Section 11 (Possession of Dangerous Drugs), Article II of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act before the prosecutor’s office.
In Makati, the Dangerous Drugs Board awarded to the Makati anti-drug abuse council the award as the country’s best anti-drug council. With Joel Zurbano
Madac bested 36 other councils, which acting Mayor Romulo Pena said, was a testament to the great efforts of hardworking men and women of the council.
Pena said his administration has pushed for an intensified campaign against drug pushers after assuming his post last July.
