Truck driver nabbed for shabu peddling
Local News • 11:15 AM Fri Jun 3, 2022
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By:
John M. Unson
State agents had seized P40,000 worthy of shabu from Francis Fran. (From PDEA-12)
COTABATO CITY --- Authorities clamped down a shabu peddler after selling P40,000 worth of his illegal merchandise in a tradeoff with agents Thursday in Arakan, North Cotabato.
Naravy Duquiatan, director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-12, said Friday Francis Fran shall be prosecuted for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 using the shabu confiscated from him as evidence.
Duquitan said Fran, a truck driver, was entrapped Thursday afternoon in Barangay Katipunan in Arakan, an upland town in North Cotabato by combined PDEA-12 agents and personnel of the local and provincial police offices.
The suspect had reportedly used his being a truck driver as cover for his peddling of shabu in certain towns in North Cotabato province.