P2.3-M drugs seized in Pagadian City

COTABATO CITY — Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-9 (PDEA-9) seized P2.3 million worth of crystal meth (shabu) from three traffickers, including a woman, in an entrapment operation in Barangay Tiguma in Pagadian City on Wednesday.

The suspects are now in the custody of the PDEA-9, to be prosecuted for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

Maharani Gadaoni-Tosoc, director of PDEA-9, told reporters on Thursday that the suspects were from Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte, and Labangan, Zamboanga del Sur.

Ms. Gadaoni-Tosoc said the suspects yielded peacefully when they found out that they had sold 350 grams of shabu, costing P2.8 million, to non-uniformed anti-narcotics agents in a tradeoff.

The operation was laid with the help of policemen from different units under Brig. Gen. Roel Rodolfo, the director of the Police Regional Office-9, according to Ms. Gadaoni Tosoc. — John Felix M. Unson