P20.4-M shabu confiscated in Zamboanga
COTABATO CITY — Policemen seized P20.4 million worth of crystal meth (shabu) from a dealer, said to have links with drug rings in the Bangsamoro region.
The dealer was entrapped in Barangay Zone II in Zamboanga City at noontime Tuesday. The suspect’s name was withheld by the Police Regional Office-9 while validation of his reported connections with shabu dealers in Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao del Norte and in Cotabato City is still underway.
Brig. Gen. Bowenn Joey M. Masauding, director of PRO-9, and his counterpart in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Brig. Gen. Romeo J. Macapaz, are together looking into tips by confidential informants about the suspect’s distribution of shabu to contacts in Bangsamoro towns that are close to the Zamboanga peninsula.
Mr. Masauding was quoted in reports by radio stations in Central Mindanao on Tuesday afternoon as saying that personnel of different units under PRO-9, the Zamboanga City Police Office and intelligence agents from the Naval Intelligence and Security Group – Western Mindanao of the Philippine Navy cooperated in the operation that led to the arrest of the lone male drug trafficker. — John Felix M. Unson
