4 nabbed after shabu worth P190M were seized in Cebu
Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2019 02:37:19 +0000
CEBU CITY — Four persons were arrested early Sunday after at least 28 kilograms of illegal drugs worth about P190 million were seized in two separate buy-bust operations in Cebu City and Consolacion town, northern Cebu.
The first operation was conducted in an apartment in Barangay Inayawan, Cebu City past 1 a.m. on Sunday where at least 18 kilos of shabu were seized from Elymar Ancajas, 24.
The drugs were placed inside black plastic bags and mixed with garlic, apparently to avoid detection by drug-sniffing dogs.
Ancajas told the police where he got the shabu, prompting the law enforcers in Cebu City and Cebu province to form a team and proceed to Consolacion town, about 19 km north of here.
The target of the buy-bust was Jocelyn Encila, the alleged supplier of Ancajas.
But Encila transacted with the undercover while in a private hospital where she was confined for loose bowel movement.
She then instructed the poseur-buyer to proceed to her house in Barangay Casili, Consolacion to pick up the illegal drugs.
According to Chief Supt. Debold Sinas, police director for Central Visayas, the poseur-buyer then received the drugs from Encila’s parents — Marcial and Marilyn Encila – in her house in Casili.
After receiving the payment from the police, the two were arrested.
Jocelyn, on the other hand, was placed under hospital arrest.
Marilyn, however, said she and her husband didn’t know about their daughter’s alleged involvement in the illegal drugs trade.
Sinas, however, said that intelligence report showed that the parents were part of their daughter’s illegal business.
“They have a big house but they supposedly get their money from selling barbeque and charcoal. Yet, they own three vehicles and their daughter doesn’t have a job. It is really suspicious (where their money comes from),” he said.
Sinas said they received information that Jocelyn’s common-law husband headed the operation while detained at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa.
Jocelyn’s partner was the one who would decide where to source the shabu and who to give it to. /lzb