COTABATO CITY — Anti-narcotics brokers, backed by different regulation enforcement models, seized P13.6 million value of suspected meth and arrested a police officer and three others in Jolo, Sulu throughout an anti-drug operation on Thursday (Sept 12), an official of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Company (PDEA) primarily based right here stated.
Gil Cesario Castro, director of the PDEA within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Area in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), recognized the suspects as Police Employees Sgt. Moh Radja Ismula, 49, an energetic police non-commissioned officer; Andam Alidjam, 65; Midarmi Alidjam, 44, and Rahsi Jallaw, 54, all of Jolo.
Seized from them after the 6 p.m. raid had been two enormous sachets of suspected meth weighing 2,000 grams, estimated to be valued at P13.6 million, the buy-bust cash, two cell phones, identification playing cards, financial institution receipts, and one pink Honda XRM motorbike.
Ismula is the second police officer arrested throughout an anti-drug entrapment operation in BARMM up to now 10 days.
On Sept 4, PDEA brokers arrested a policeman and three others throughout an anti-drug operation in Barangay Sanga-Sanga, Bongao, Tawi-Tawi.
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Confiscated from them was meth amounting to P68,000, or about 10 grams of the unlawful substance.
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Since January this 12 months, about P100 million value of meth have been confiscated in numerous anti-drug operations throughout the BARMM area.
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