Nearly P1-M drugs seized in Maguindanao del Norte
COTABATO CITY — Non-uniformed policemen seized P985,728 worth of crystal meth (shabu) from a dealer entrapped in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte on Monday.
The now detained Amir Kasim Upam was first shot and wounded in the abdomen by a policeman after he pulled out a gun when he sensed he had sold 144 grams of shabu to a police team during a tradeoff.
Brig. Gen. Romeo J. Macapaz, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, told reporters on Tuesday that the sting that resulted in the arrest of Mr. Upam was planned by operatives of the Sultan Kudarat Municipal Police Office, led by Lt. Col. Esmael A. Madin.
The plot was to entrap him in Barangay Salimbao in Sultan Kudarat, but the operation was laid in the town proper of Datu Odin Sinsuat instead, as suggested by Mr. Upam and a companion, a certain Ricky.
His companion escaped as he was about to be frisked and cuffed by combined police personnel under Mr. Madin and agents led by his counterpart in the Datu Odin Sinsuat police force, Lt. Col. Samuel Roy M. Subsuban.
Mr. Macapaz said Mr. Madin and Mr. Subsuban will cooperate in prosecuting Mr. Upam, now in a hospital guarded by policemen, for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. — John Felix M. Unson
