A former Moro Islamic Liberation Front member was arrested by operatives from the Quezon City Police District in a buy-bust operation Monday.
In his report to National Capital Region Police Office head Chief Supt. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, QCPD Director Chief Supt. Joselito Esquivel Jr. said suspects Kalse Manap, a.k.a. Castro, 28, and his uncle Ibrahim Usman, a.k.a. Ebs, 37, were arrested by authorities at 5 pm Monday at the Puregold supermarket along Luzon Avenue in Barangay Old Balara.
Seized from the suspects were approximately 25 grams of shabu worth P125,000, and the P50,000 buy-bust money.
Esquivel said the suspects were newly-identified drug personalities and were responsible for the proliferation of shabu in Barangays Culiat and Old Balara.
Police records showed that Usman eluded arrest by operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and the Cotabato City police in Barangay Tamontaka 1, Cotabato City last Aug. 2, 2016.
Two of his companions were arrested.
Confiscated during the operation were one canister containing eight sachets of shabu, several drug paraphernalia, one cal. 45 pistol, one cal. 45 magazine assembly, six ammunition for cal. 45, several bank deposit slips and passbooks believed to be used in their illegal drug transactions.
Meanwhile, 17 other drug suspects were arrested in separate operations by different QCPD police stations on Monday.