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Three
suspects of illegal drug trading
arrested
in Margosatubig buy-bust
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PAGADIAN
CITY, Zamboanga del Sur (Sept. 4, 2015) --- The Margosatubig Municipal Police
Station (MPS) had files charges Friday morning to the provincial prosecutor’s
officer against the 3 suspected involved in illegal drug trafficking in the
said town.
Zamboanga
del Sur Police Provincial Director Senior Supt. Sofronio Ecaldre said the
arrest of the suspects was the result of month-long surveillance operations.
The joint
operatives of the Philippine Drugs Enforcement Agency (PDEA), Margosatubig MPS,
Provincial Intelligence Branch PIB-ZSPPO and the Army’s 53rd
Infantry Battalion successfully raided the suspect’s residence Thursday at
about 1:00 pm at Sitio
Marisa, Brgy. Poblacion of the said town of this province.
Ecaldre
identified the 3 suspects as Jusabi Dacula y Fernandez, 25, married, fishermen,
a resident of Prk. Cadena de Amor; Usman Manabilang y imbingan aka TOTO, 25,
married, fishermen and Noron Mawalaw y Jano, 58, married, fishermen, all are
residents of Prk. Cadena de Amor, Brgy. Poblacion, Margosatubig.
Ecaldre
said the government operatives confiscated the following items: assorted sizes
of heat-sealed transparent plastic sachet containing white crystalline
substance believed to be shabu with a total of estimated weight of 50 grams;
1 digital
weighing scale; different illegal drugs paraphernalia and 2 pcs of Php500.00
bill used as buy-bust money.
Arrested
suspects are now temporary detained at Margosatubig MPS lock-up cell while
waiting the proper disposition of the case, Ecaldre added. (By J. Cadion)
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