A composite anti-narcotics team lead by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) has seized P754.8 million worth of shabu in two buy-bust operations over the weekend in Pampanga.
One of the raids netted 81 kilos of the illegal drugs worth P550.8 million in a buy-bust operation on Feb. 19 in a townhouse in Barangay Pampang.
A suspect, identified as Chinese national Willy Tan Zhang, a 51, collapsed upon arrest and was brought to the Rafael Lazatin Memorial Medical Center where he was declared dead on arrival.
A 30-year-old Filipina, was also arrested during the raid.
Also on Feb. 19, another operation was conducted along Poinsettia Avenue in Barangay Pampang, resulting in the seizure of 30 kilos of suspected shabu worth P204 million from drug suspects Yi Xin Li, 49, a Chinese resident of Tondo, Manila, and Mark June Barsaga, 23, of Lucena City in Quezon province.
The suspects also yielded non-drug evidence, including several mobile phones, a gray Toyota Avanza, identification cards and the buy-bust money.
All the suspects would face drug charges.