P680,000 worth of shabu seized from trafficker in Tawi-Tawi
Local News • 15:30 PM Wed Apr 14, 2021
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By:
John M. Unson
Alsuhod Asamad (2nd from left) is now detained. (From PDEA-BARMM)
COTABATO CITY --- Agents seized P680,000 worth of shabu from trafficker Alsuhod Ahamad who fell in an entrapment operation in Bongao town in Tawi-Tawi Tuesday.
Juvenal Azurin, director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, said Wednesday the suspect is now detained.
Ahamad was frisked and cuffed immediately after turning over to a non-uniformed PDEA-BARMM agent P680,000 worth of shabu during a clandestine tradeoff in the public market of Bongao.
Bongao is the capital town of Tawi-Tawi, one of the five provinces of BARMM.
Azurin said the Tawi-Tawi provincial police and the 12th Marine Battalion helped entrapped Ahamad.
Ahamad is a known large-scale distributor of shabu in Bongao and in nearby island towns in Tawi-Tawi.
PDEA-BARMM personnel and members of the Tawi-Tawi provincial police had entrapped more than 10 drug dealers in the province in the past 18 months.