NABBED. Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency agents seize a more than 100 of Chinese teabags of suspected shabu worth PHP802 million. Agents also arrested a Chinese national in a buy-bust on Tuesday Dec. 24) in Barangay Sienna, Quezon City. (Photo courtesy by PDEA).
MANILA -- Anti-narcotics agents nabbed a Chinese national in Quezon City and seized from him some PHP802.4 million worth of shabu in buy-bust, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said on Tuesday.
PDEA Regional Office-National Capital Region director III Joel Plaza identified the Chinese suspect as Zhang Yun Quan alias Francis, 30, who were arrested during the anti-drug operations in Barangay Sienna.
Plaza said authorities monitored the suspect for two weeks in his apartment that allegedly served as a drug warehouse.
The suspect yielded around two kilograms of shabu, with a standard drug price of PHP13.6 million and the buy-bust money.
Authorities also seized 116 packs of shabu in a Chinese teabags worth PHP788 million inside the suspect's rented apartment in Tabayoc Street in the said barangay.
Criminal charges for violation of Section 5 (Sale of Illegal Drugs) and Section 11 (Illegal Possession of Dangerous Drugs) of Article II of the Republic Act 9165 will be filed against the suspect. (PNA)
