P680,000 worth of shabu seized from dealer
Local News • 07:45 AM Sun Dec 13, 2020
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By:
John M. Unson
Drug dealer Allan Sambutuan Abdul is now detained. (PDEA-BARMM handout photo)
COTABATO CITY --- State agents seized P680,000 worth of shabu from a large-scale trafficker who fell in an entrapment operation in Datu Odin Sinsuat town Saturday.
Juvenal Azurin, director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, said Sunday suspect Allan Sambutuan Abdul is now clamped down in their detention facility in Cotabato City.
Abdul was arrested in the Upper Capiton area in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao by combined PDEA-BARMM agents and personnel of the Datu Odin Sinsuat municipal police after selling his illegal merchandise to a non-uniformed anti-narcotics operative.
The entrapment operation that led toAbdul's arrest was laid after the PDEA-BARMM received a tip from his relatives detailing his shabu peddling activities in Datu Odin Sinsuat and in nearby towns in Maguindanao province.
Azurin said the PDEA-BARMM will prosecuteAbdul for violation of Republic Act 9165, or the Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, using the P680,000 worth of shabu confiscated from him as evidence.