COTABATO CITY (October 29, 2025) — Policemen seized P1.1 million worth of shabu from an elusive drug dealer, entrapped at last in Barangay Poblacion 3 in this city on Monday afternoon, October 27, after evading four attempts to bust him in supposed tradeoffs early on.
The 26-year-old suspect, Datu Noel Osmeña Guimba, is closely related to the now detained Al Gafur Guimba Tiboron, who, along with seven cohorts, were arrested by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-12 who raided their drug den along Alim Street in Kidapawan City on the same day.
The drug den operators Tiboron, who is cousin of Guimba, and his seven cohorts, Nasrudin Omar Dumacon and his companions, Zairon Dimandas Mama, Zaahabuden Marato Hassan, Francis Dee Pagayon Retorta, Jero Lim Padilla, Al Gafur Guimba Tiboron, are now in the joint custody of the PDEA-12 and the Kidapawan City Police Office.
Guimba was shot and wounded in the right thigh by one of the plainclothes policemen involved in the entrapment operation whose pistol he tried to grab when he sensed that he had sold 170 grams of shabu, costing P1.1 million, to an anti-narcotics team led by Lt. Col. Esmael Madin, municipal police chief in the Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte.
Brig. Gen. Jaysen De Guzman, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, told reporters on Tuesday, October 28, that Guimba was supposed to be entrapped in Barangay Awang in Datu Odin Sinsuat town by Madin and his subordinates, but the tradeoff was done in Barangay Poblacion 3 in Cotabato instead on his behest.
Guimba is a resident of Barangay Poblacion 2 in Cotabato City, where he also reportedly facilitated occasional pot sessions for buyers of his illegal merchandise, according to local officials who supported the anti-narcotics operation that led to the confiscation from him of P1.1 million worth of shabu.
Police officials and local executives in the neighboring Cotabato City, capital of the Bangsamoro region, and Datu Odin Sinsuat town in Maguindanao del Norte separately told reporters that Guimba had eluded at least four attempts by police anti-narcotics units to entrap him in recent months.
De Guzman said officials of intelligence units under the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, covering six provinces and five cities in Central Mindanao, have relayed to him that Guimba shared his earnings from trafficking of shabu and marijuana to the remaining leaders of the now almost defunct Dawlah Islamiya and Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, both known for providing sanctuary to illegal drug dealers in exchange for money.
Photo shows Guimba, now in the custody of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region.