SEIZED. The drugs and guns confiscated from drug suspects Tulonbai Abid Macmod and Nasrudin Kasa, his uncle, during a raid carried out by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao at the suspects’ house in Barangay Rosary Heights 10, Cotabato City, shortly before midnight of Wednesday (Feb. 20). (Photo courtesy of Dennis Arcon – DXMY Cotabato)
COTABATO CITY -- Anti-narcotic agents nabbed a female agriculture employee of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and his uncle during a raid shortly before Wednesday midnight in Barangay Rosary Heights 10 here.
Juvenal Azurin, director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency–ARMM, identified the arrested suspects as Tulonbai Abid Macmod, reportedly assigned with ARMM's Department of Agriculture and Fisheries in Maguindanao province, and his uncle, Nasrudin Kasa, a pedicab driver and alleged member of the Moro National Liberation Front-Nur Misuari faction.
Seized from the suspects’ house along Purok Riverside Malagapas in the village were 46 sachets of shabu with a street value of PHP100,000, two .45-caliber pistols, a bank checkbook, and drug paraphernalia, Azurin said.
Azurin said the PDEA team missed Macmod’s husband, the principal target of the raid, who was not at home at the time of the operation.
“The couple and their uncle are high-value targets we have been monitoring for some time now,” he told reporters here in an interview Thursday.
Azurin said Macmod’s husband, whom he declined to identify, is now the subject of a PDEA follow-up operation.
The female Macmod has denied the allegations against them, saying she is just an ordinary government employee and that her husband is an Army personnel assigned in Zamboanga City.
Charges for violation of R.A. 9165 (Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002) and R.A. 10591 (Comprehensive Law on Firearms and Ammunition) are being readied against the suspects. (PNA)
