Uncooperative drug dealer perished in PDEA operation
Local News • 16:15 PM Tue Aug 11, 2020
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By:
John M. Unson
Drug dealer Abdulhamid Bandal died from multiple gunshot wounds. (Contributed)
COTABATO CITY --- Agents killed a drug dealer who resisted arrest after selling P340,000 worth of shabu in a sting Tuesday that went haywire.
Abdulhamid Bandal, also known as Ken, died from multiple bullet wounds sustained in the shootout with agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in Kakar area here.
Juvenal Azurin, director of PDEA-BARMM, said agents were forced to neutralize Bandal, a large-scale shabu trafficker, after he pulled out a .45 caliber pistol when he sensed he has sold 50 grams of shabu to non-uniformed anti-narcotics operatives.
The entrapment operation that went awry and led to the death of Bandal was laid with the help of his vigilant neighbors.
Besides shabu, PDEA-BARMM agents also seized Bandal's .45 caliber Norinco pistol that he fired at the team involved in the P340,000 worth drug entrapment deal.