COTABATO CITY, Philippines --- Anti-narcotics agents seized P439,892 worth of shabu from three traffickers in an entrapment operation in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat on Friday, October 23.
The suspects, two women and their male accomplice, are now in the custody of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency 12, to be prosecuted for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
Charlene Magdurulang, regional director of PDEA 12, told reporters on Saturday that the suspects were immediately arrested by their agents and policemen after selling to them shabu during a tradeoff in Purok Pagkakaisa in Barangay Kenram in Isulan, the capital town of Sultan Kudarat.
Community leaders and residents of Barangay Kenram, who requested anonymity, had separately urged the police and the PDEA 12 to validate the information relayed to them by tipsters that the three suspects also circulated in Isulan and nearby towns dried marijuana from a few remaining members of the now inactive Dawlah Islamiya, propagated in highlands at the border of Sultan Kudarat and Maguindanao del Sur provinces.
Magdurulang said the entrapment operation that resulted in the arrest of the three suspects and confiscation from them of P439,892 worth of shabu was supported by local executives and operatives from different units in Sultan Kudarat of the Police Regional Office 12.