SURPRISED. Police operatives handcuff a suspected drug peddler (in yellow shirt) after he sold a sachet of suspected “shabu” drugs to a poseur buyer in Barangay Limbo, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte, on Monday (April 22, 2024). Seized from him were more than PHP2.7 million worth of “shabu” drugs. (Photo courtesy of Maguindanao Norte PPO)
SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao del Norte – Police arrested here Monday afternoon an alleged big-time drug peddler and seized from him over P2.7 million worth of “shabu” drugs
Lt. Colonel Esmael Madin, municipal police chief, identified the suspect as Jobert Paches, 27, of Barangay Mother Poblacion, Cotabato City.
A team of police and anti-narcotics operatives nabbed the suspect during a 3 p.m. drug buy-bust operation in Barangay Limbo of this town.
Paches yielded eight huge sachets of shabu with a market value of P2,720,000, a minivan, boodle money, and other non-drug items, Madin said.
Since January this year, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region have confiscated over PHP50 million worth of illegal drugs across the region. (PNA)
