Mindanaotoday.com | 2 nabbed, 1.5 kilo shabu seized in Jolo, Sulu
By: Teofilo Garcia, Jr.
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Government operatives arrested two persons and seized suspected shabu with an estimated street value of PHP10.2 million during an anti-drug operation in Sulu’s capital town of Jolo, a police official said Wednesday.
Col. Richard Verceles, operations chief of the Area Police Command–Western Mindanao, said suspects Alnasir Ismun and Al-amin Sahipa were arrested at the port of Barangay Walled City in Jolo at about 9:15 p.m. on Tuesday.
Verceles said they, however, failed to apprehend Shadri Mar, the main target of the anti-drug operation, as the latter did not appear at the time and place where he was supposed to meet his two alleged couriers.
Seized from Ismun and Sahipa were about 1.5 kg. of suspected shabu packed in one big and 10 medium-sized heat-sealed plastic sachets, and other pieces of evidence, police said.
Verceles said the anti-drug operation, jointly carried out by police and military operatives, as well as personnel of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency 9 (Zamboanga Peninsula), was launched after a series of surveillance on the activities of the suspects. (PNA)
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