COTABATO CITY -- An anti-drug operation here Monday night netted three women, including a pregnant mother, and eight men who were allegedly clients of a drug den in Barangay Poblacion 2, this city.
Director Juvenal Azurin of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency - Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-BARMM), said they launched the anti-drug operation after a series of surveillance confirmed the illegal drug activities inside the residence of a certain "Ali."
Azurin said they are withholding the identities of the suspects pending follow-up operations, including the alleged drug den owner.
Backed by police and soldiers from the Army's 5th Special Forces Battalion, PDEA operatives caught the suspects holding pot session inside a house-cum-drug den in Purok Pagkakaisa, Barangay Poblacion 2.
Following their arrest, the pregnant woman, when asked by reporters if she really uses illegal drugs, she replied: “for past time only.”
The two other women said they used drugs for “for personal reasons.”
The suspects are detained at the PDEA-BARMM custodial facility while charges for violation of Republic Act 9165 (Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002) are being prepared against them. (PNA)
Pregnant mom, 10 others nabbed in Cotabato City drug op
By Edwin Fernandez
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