South Cotabato's 3rd most wanted person in illegal drug trade falls
• 06:05 AM Tue Jul 7, 2015
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Edwin Fernandez and Roel Osano
Rohaida Salbaton was arrested for alleged illegal drug trade in Sto NIno, South Cotabato. (Sto Nino PNP)
KORONADAL CITY - Police arrested over the weekend in Sto Nino townSouth Cotabato's 3rd most wanted person engaged in illegal drug trade, police said.Chief Insp. Joel Fuerte, Sto Nino town police, identified the suspect asRohaida Salbaton, 42, akaMarimar.Salbaton was in the top 3 watch list of the local PNP.Her arrest came a day before the Sto Nino PNP scored big with the arrest of Johney Mantawi, South Cotabato's most wanted man who once kept P25 million worth of methamphetamine hydrochloride.Police missed him during a drug buy bust operation in February but Mantawi's home yielded the biggest illegal drug haul in the province.Salbaton was arrested inbBarangay
Ambalgan Sto. Nino after a drug buy bust operation.Both Mantawil and Salbaton were arrested by virtue of an arrest warrant issued by a local court. Both are now detained at the South Cotabato Rehabilitation and Detention Center in Koronadal City.