BAGUIO CITY — Drugs and illegal guns were seized by authorities during simultaneous raids in Barangay Otucan, Bauko town and in Sitio Tam-awan, Barangay Guinzadan Sur, Bauko town, both in Mountain Province on Monday.

Operatives from the Philippine National Police Provincial Drug Enforcement Group-Special Operations Unit Cordillera (PNP-PDEG SOU CAR), Mt. Province Provincial Police together with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Cordillera (PDEA-CAR), caught the owner of the house where eight sachets of crystal meth (shabu), weighing around 10 grams, were confiscated. It was valued at P50,000.

Other drug paraphernalia, firearms, and ammunition were also discovered, said PDEA-CAR Regional Director Derrick Arnold C. Carreon, prompting authorities to sue the suspect, whose name had been withheld.

A composite team of PDEA-Mt. Province agents together with policemen also raided a house in Sitio Tam-awan and seized six sachets of shabu, weighing an estimated 22.5 grams with a value reaching P112,000, along with various drug paraphernalia.

The suspect, a 36-year-old mechanic will be facing illegal drug charges while the caught drug suspect from Otucan, Bauko will be facing drug charges and illegal firearms cases. — Artemio A. Dumlao

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