Mindanaotoday.com | Sulu anti-drug op nets 2, P6.8-M shabu
By: Teofilo Garcia, Jr.
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Authorities have arrested two alleged high-value drug traders and seized some PHP6.8 million worth of suspected shabu in an anti-drug operation in Sulu province, a police official said Tuesday.
Col. Richard Verceles, Area Police Command-Western Mindanao operations chief, said the suspects Alfajar Asgali, 26;and Madjid Sala, 41, were arrested in a buy-bust around 2:30 p.m. Monday in Barangay San Raymundo, Jolo, Sulu.
Verceles said the operation was launched following surveillance of the alleged illegal drug trade activities of the suspects.
Police, soldiers, and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) personnel, seized from the suspects two plastic sachets containing a kilogram of suspected shabu, two mobile phones, and other personal items, the police official said.
It was the biggest drug haul authorities made in four days in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Verceles said.
The suspects, detained at the Jolo police station, will be charged with the violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
“The suspects were arrested with the appraisal of their constitutional rights in a local dialect known to them,” Verceles said in a statement.
On Oct. 13, authorities also seized some 300 grams of shabu worth PHP2 million following a clash that resulted in the death of one of the four suspects, an incumbent councilor in Barangay Limogao, Saguiaran, Lanao del Sur. (PNA)
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