COTABATO CITY — Policemen confiscated P6.8 million worth of crystal meth (shabu) from a couple who fell in an entrapment operation in Datu Odin Sinsuat on Saturday.
Brig. Gen. Romeo J. Macapaz, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, told reporters on Sunday that Oks Ayunan Odin and his wife, Bellia Antilino Odin, are now detained, awaiting prosecution for the violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
Mr. Macapaz said the couple was immediately arrested after selling to personnel of the Sultan Kudarat Municipal Police Station, led by Lt. Col. Esmael A. Madin, a kilo of shabu, costing P6.8 million, in a tradeoff on Saturday afternoon in the town proper of Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte.
The entrapment operation was first laid by Mr. Madin and his subordinates in Barangay Salimbao in Sultan Kudarat, but the Odins asked their contacts in the Sultan Kudarat Municipal Police Station.
Mr. Madin told reporters their counterparts in the Datu Odin Sinsuat Municipal Police Station, under Lt. Col. Samuel Roy M. Subsuban, assisted them in carrying out the operation that resulted in the arrest of the Odins and the seizure of millions worth of drugs. — John Felix M. Unson
