COTABATO CITY — Anti-narcotics operatives, backed by law enforcement partners, arrested on Friday five drug peddlers, including a drug den operator, and dismantled a suspected drug den in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao.
Juvenal Azurin, chief of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency – Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-ARMM), said joint elements of PDEA, Criminal Investigation and Detection Group and Datu Odin Sinsuat police conducted a buy-bust bust operation at sitio Siawan, Tamontaka, DOS, Maguidanao at around 6 a.m. and arrested the drug suspects.
Azurin identified the drug den operator as Juhery “Tho” Abdul and his four other cohorts whose identities were withheld pending deeper investigation.
“All suspects were inside the drug den at the time of the buy bust operation,” Azurin said.
Seized from the suspects were about 20 grams of suspected shabu and cal. 45 pistol without serial numbers.
Charges for violation of Republic Act 9165 are being prepared against the suspects who are now detained at Datu Odin Sinsuat police lock up cell. (Edwin Fernandez/PNA)
