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COTABATO CITY — Non-uniformed policemen seized P5.7 million worth of crystal meth (shabu) from two traffickers entrapped in Barangay Santa Barbara in Zamboanga City on Sunday night.

Brig. Gen. Bowenn Joey M. Masauding, director of the Police Regional Office-9, said on Monday morning that the 63-year-old Nasser Ibrahim Usman and his 48-year-old cohort, Frasel Saluay Sahibeini, are now locked in a detention facility and will be prosecuted for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

Mr. Masauding said the duo was immediately arrested after selling to combined anti-narcotics operatives of PRO-9 and the Zamboanga City Police Office 850 grams of shabu in a tradeoff along Martha Drive in Barangay Santa Barbara.

The entrapment operation that led to the arrest of Mr. Usman and Mr. Sahibeini was laid with the help of barangay officials and the office of Zamboanga City Mayor John M. Dalipe, according to Mr. Masauding. — John Felix M. Unson

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