COTABATO CITY --- Anti-narcotics agents clamped down on Monday another shabu dealer, circulating his illegal merchandise in residential areas in Kidapawan City, in an operation laid with the help of his former patrons who had reformed for good.
Charlene Magdurulang, director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency 12, told reporters on Tuesday that the 38-year-old male suspect is now detained, to be prosecuted for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
The suspect, known to friends and erstwhile buyers of his illegal merchandise as Ramil, was immediately frisked and cuffed by PDEA 12 agents after selling to them shabu during a tradeoff in Barangay Kalaisan in Kidapawan City in Cotabato province.
The entrapment operation was supported by units in the province of the Police Regional Office 12 the Kidapawan City Police Station.
Magdurulang said PDEA 12 agents and policemen had seized from the suspect P1,020 worth of shabu during the operation, planned with the help of tipsters who had provided prior information pertaining to his drug trafficking activities.
Magdurulung said they are thankful to police officials in Kidapawan City and PRO 12 units covering towns around for helping PDEA 12 agents entrap the suspect, now locked in a detention facility, awaiting prosecution in court.