COTABATO CITY — Police arrested a “habal-habal” (passenger motorbike) driver here during a drug buy-bust operation that also led to the confiscation of 19 sachets of “shabu” from him Friday.
Chief Insp. Alex Lanestosa, city police station 3 chief, said Aliuden Mama, a resident of Barangay Poblacion, did not resist arrest when authorities arrested him at about 6 a.m. after he handed over a sachet of shabu to a poseur-buyer.
Barangay Poblacion Chairman Nasser Usman Jr. said Mama was known in the village only as a plain “habal-habal” driver prior to his arrest.
Usman said the suspect has been monitored by police agents for the past several weeks, peddling illegal drugs in the guise of driving passengers to and from the village.
Police seized 19 sachets of shabu from the suspect with an estimated street value of PHP30,000. (Edwin Fernandez/PNA)
