P6.8-M shabu seized in Zamboanga Sibugay
COTABATO CITY — Non-uniformed policemen seized P6.8 million worth of crystal meth (shabu) from a dealer entrapped in Barangay Poblacion in Kabasalan town in Zamboanga Sibugay on Monday evening.
Officials of the Zamboanga Sibugay Provincial Police office and Brig. Gen. Bowenn Joey M. Masauding, director of the Police Regional Office-9, separately told reporters on Tuesday that the peddler is now locked in a detention facility, awaiting prosecution.
The suspect was immediately frisked and cuffed by the policemen who had procured from him a kilo of shabu, costing P6.8 million, during a tradeoff in Barangay Poblacion in Kapatagan.
Mr. Masauding said the 50-year-old male suspect, whose name he withheld, in the meantime, while efforts to locate his accomplices in Kabasalan are still underway, is a resident of Arena Blanco in Barangay Mampang in Zamboanga City. — John Felix M. Unson
