PDEA, cops arrest 4 drug pushers, users in S. Cotabato
Local News • 17:16 PM Thu Dec 1, 2016
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KORONADAL CITY – Four persons engaged in illegal drug trade were arrested by police
and anti-narcotics agents in overnight anti-drug operations in separate areas
in South Cotabato, official said today.
First to fall
following a drug buy bust operation was Ricardo Alabado, a 30-year-old known
illegal drug pusher in Banga, South Cotabato.
Chief Insp. Jardi Mont Sibal, Banga PNP chief, said Alabado who has been very innovative in dealing with his clients has
been placed under surveillance for two months after he voluntarily showed up to
police September.
He took oath
before the local police that he will do away with illegal drugs.
But police
were suspicious so he was placed on watch list.
A drug buy
bust was launched at 2 a.m. Thursday against Alabado, a resident of Barangay
San Vicente, Banga.
Police agents posing
as buyers knocked on Alabado’s home to secure stuff. Alabado agreed and as he handed over the
stuff to the buyer, he was arrested.
Seized from
Alabado were 11 sachets of shabu.
In Koronadal
City, operatives of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) arrested three
persons, including two women, in separate anti-drug operation.
Kath Abad,
speaking for PDEA-12, said Rowena Macasaet, 54, alias Mommy was arrested
following a drug buy bust operation in Navarro subdivision, Koronadal City at
10 p.m. Wednesday.
PDEA agents
seized four sachets of shabu from Macasaet who was identified by other drug
users as their source of stuff.
We have been
closely watching her, I can’t imagine that at her age she was still into
illegal trade, Abad told DXOM-AM Radyo Bida Koronadal.
Abad said
Macasaet manages a boarding house and most of her clients are her boarders,
students and even professionals.
At about 11
p.m., another drug buy bust was launched, this time at the corner of Santiago and
Abad Santos Streets, Koronadal City, which led to the arrest of Maria Theresa
Gunting, 36 and Glen Mark Rivera, 39, both of Jose Abad Santos Street.
Narcotics
agents seized a huge sachet of shabu and shabu paraphernalia from them.
The suspects
are facing charges for violation of Republic Act 9165.