COTABATO CITY — Policemen confiscated P3.4 million worth of crystal meth (shabu) from a 38-year-old mother and her adolescent daughter who both fell in a sting in Barangay Poblacion 5 in this city on Friday.

The mother was immediately locked in police detention while her 16-year-old daughter is now under the joint custody of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (PRO-BAR) and the social welfare office of the Cotabato City local government.

Police Brig. Gen. Jaysen C. De Guzman, director of PRO-BAR, told reporters on Sunday morning that the successful entrapment operation was premised on reports by traditional Moro leaders and local officials, among them Mayor Bruce D. Matabalao, chairperson of the multi-sector Cotabato City Peace and Order Council, about the large-scale peddling of shabu and marijuana in Cotabato City and in nearby towns in Maguindanao del Norte.

Mr. De Guzman said the operation that resulted in the arrest was carried out by the Drug Enforcement Group-Special Operations Unit 15, which is under PRO-BAR’s operational control, and personnel of different units of the Cotabato City Police Office led by their director, Col. Jibin Bongcayao. — John Felix M. Unson

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