17-year-old nabbed with PHP 2.1M worth of shabu

By Jennifer P. Rendon

A Grade 11 student was arrested on the evening of Sept. 27 in a police anti-illegal drug operation in La Paz, Iloilo City.

Alias Emok, 17, was collared in a buy-bust operation at a roadside near his house at Ledesco Village in Barangay Tabuc Suba, La Paz.

Members of the Regional Police Drug Enforcement Unit (RPDEU) 6, together with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Group Special Operations Unit, the Regional Intelligence Division 6, and the Iloilo City Police Station 2, arrested the suspect after he sold a sachet of suspected shabu for PHP 13,000 to a police poseur buyer.

Police operatives seized five knot-tied plastic bags and six sachets of suspected shabu during the operation.

Major Marvin Villanueva, RPDEU-6 deputy chief, said the seized drugs in Emok’s possession weighed around 210 grams with a standard drug price of PHP 1,428,000.

Later, the suspect also turned in a knot-tied bag of suspected shabu weighing approximately 100 grams valued at PHP 680,000, along with empty plastic sachets, a digital weighing scale, and a spoon.

“He turned it in kasi ayaw niya daw madamay family members niya. They were the ones who took the additional shabu from where the suspect hid it,” Villanueva said.

Villanueva said the suspect acted as a “bodegero” and a drug pusher for an as-yet-unknown shabu distributor.

Police believe he sourced his supply from Metro Manila.

The suspect was turned over to the Iloilo City Police Station 2 Women and Children’s Protection Desk (WCPD) immediately following his arrest.