Woman, fruit vendor yield P13-M shabu
Credit to Author: RHEA RUTH ROSELL| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 16:51:17 +0000
CEBU CITY: Police arrested a woman and a fruit vendor who yielded more than P13 million worth of suspected shabu in separate buy-bust operations in Cebu City on Tuesday.
Police identified the suspects as Ariane Ann Reyes, 27, of Sitio Galili in Barangay Duljo Fatima, Cebu City, and Marvin Makilang, 24, a fruit vendor of San Nicolas Public Market in Cebu City.
The arrest of the two suspects was made possible by a joint operations of the Philippine National Police-Drug Enforcement Group, Special Operations Unit 5 in Central Visayas, Drug Enforcement Unit of the Cebu City Police Office, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7) and Cebu City Police Station 11.
Cebu City Police Station 11 Capt. Francis Renz Talosig said Reyes sold a medium pack of shabu for P12,000 to a poseur buyer along an alley of Sitio Galili in Barangay Duljo Fatima at past 6 p.m.
Police found one extra-large pack, 15 large packs and two medium packs of shabu placed inside Reyes’s black backpack.
The confiscated banned substance, which weighed 1.8 kilograms, has an estimated Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) value of P12,240,000.
Talosig said Reyes, who was unemployed, admitted to selling shabu.
Reyes, who was under surveillance for more than two weeks, did not resist arrest. “She (Reyes) said an inmate, detained for an illegal drugs case at the Cebu City Jail, was
her source of shabu,” said Talosig in Visayan.
Talosig said Reyes could dispose at least 100 grams of shabu in Cebu City every week.
Earlier that day, Makilang was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Basak San Nicolas in Cebu City at past 4 p.m.
Leia Albiar, PDEA-7 spokesman said an undercover police officer bought a large pack of shabu for P190,000 from Makilang in Caimito Street.
PDEA-7 agents seized one more pack of shabu, a mobile phone and a motorcycle from Makilang.
Albiar said Makilang, who was uncooperative to the investigation, could dispose at least a kilo of shabu every week.
The DDB value of the confiscated contraband is estimated at P850,000.