Bangsamoro cops seize P7.4-M shabu in Marawi operation

COTABATO CITY — Non-uniformed policemen seized P7.4 million worth of crystal meth (shabu) from a trafficker entrapped in Barangay Gadongan in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur on Saturday, with the help of local executives and Maranao community leaders.

Local executives and ranking members of the multisector Lanao del Sur Provincial Peace and Order Council, chaired by Governor Mamintal A. Adiong, Jr. separately confirmed to reporters on Sunday that the 33-year-old suspect is now detained, to be prosecuted for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

Brig. Gen. Jaysen C. De Guzman, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, said on Sunday that the suspect was arrested by combined operatives from the Lanao del Sur Provincial Police Office, the Marawi City Police Station and the City Police Drug Enforcement Unit after selling 1.1 kilo of shabu during an entrapment operation on Saturday morning in Barangay Gadongan.

Mr. De Guzman said the suspect yielded peacefully when he sensed that he had sold drugs to plainclothes policemen, together led by Capt. Macabantog A. Batao and his superior, Marawi City’s police chief, Lt. Col. Muhiddin G. Pagayawan, during a tradeoff at one area in Barangay Gadongan. — John Felix M. Unson