Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency arrested in an operation on Thursday night, June 5, four men together operating a clandestine drug den in Barangay Rosary Heights 10 in this city.
Gil Cesario Castro, director of the PDEA-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, told reporters on Friday, June 6, that all of the four male suspects are now locked in their detention facility, to be prosecuted for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
Castro said the suspects were immediately cuffed after selling to their agents and policemen from units of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region P34,000 worth of shabu in an entrapment operation right in their hideout in Barangay Rosary Heights 10, where they facilitated pot sessions for buyers of their illegal merchandise.
Castro said the entrapment operation that led to their arrest and confiscation from them of P34,000 worth of shabu was laid with the support of Cotabato City’s police director, Col. Jibin Bongcayao, and Mayor Mohammad Ali Matabalao, chairperson of the multi-sector city peace and order council.
The drug den of the four shabu peddlers is now guarded by volunteer community watchmen and barangay officials. (JFU, June 6, 2025)
