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COTABATO CITY — Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) seized P6.8 million worth of crystal meth (shabu) from four traffickers entrapped in Barangay San Roque in Zamboanga City on Thursday.

Maharani Gadaoni-Tosoc, director of PDEA-9, told reporters in Cotabato City via text message on Thursday afternoon that the four suspects were immediately frisked and cuffed after selling a kilo of shabu to their agents.

Ms. Gadaoni-Tosoc said they are to prosecute the now detained shabu peddlers, Jason Orquijo, Eldrian Alvarez, Alrakib Dasid, and Ellan Testado, for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

“The entrapment operation was planned with the help of tipsters. To them we are thankful,” Ms. Gadaoni-Tosoc said.

PDEA-9 agents also confiscated a motorcycle and the tricycle of the suspects that they reportedly used in distributing their illegal merchandise to contacts in different barangays in Zamboanga City. — John Felix M. Unson

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