BUSTED. Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Davao Region (PDEA-11) seize the shabu items from suspected drug peddler Anthony Louie Tura (seated, blue sando), Davao Oriental’s second most drug personality, following his arrest on Wednesday (Feb. 2, 2022) in a buy-bust at his house in Barangay Central, Mati City, Davao Oriental. Recovered from the suspect was more than PHP15,000 worth of shabu. (Photo courtesy of PDEA-11)
DAVAO CITY - Anti-narcotics agents have arrested Davao Oriental’s second top drug personality in a buy-bust, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Davao Region (PDEA-11) reported Friday.
In a statement, the PDEA-11 identified the suspect as Anthony Louie Tura, 33, of Barangay Central, Mati City, Davao Oriental.
Joint operatives of PDEA-11, the Regional Intelligence Unit of Police Regional Office - 11, Davao Oriental Police Provincial Office, and the Mati City Police Station launched the operation at 7:50 p.m. on February 2 at the suspect’s house in the area.
Tura was collared by PDEA agents after completing the drug transaction with a poseur buyer.
Seized from the suspect were a small sachet of shabu worth PHP1,000 and the buy-bust money.
A further search on the suspect yielded two other plastic sachets of shabu with a street value of PHP15,000.
The suspects will be charged with the violation of Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. (PNA)
