COTABATO CITY (September 27, Saturday) — Policemen arrested two shabu dealers who reportedly shared fractions of their earnings to the Dawlah Islamiya and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters in separate entrapment operations in this city on Friday, September 26.
Local officials, among them members of the Cotabato City Peace and Order Council who helped plot the two entrapment operations, told reporters on Saturday, September 27, that the suspects, Fahad Talilisen Angas and Amir Karim Dalandas, are now both detained, awaiting prosecution for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
Angas was immediately arrested after selling P1,500 worth shabu to operatives of the Cotabato City Police Station 3 during a tradeoff at Purok 8 in Barangay Bagua 3, an operation together laid by Captain Kenneth Encabo and his immediate superior, Col. Jibin Bongcayao, director of the Cotabato City Police Office.
Dalandas fell in an entrapment operation on the same day along Maria Clara Street in Barangay Rosary Heights 4, Cotabato City.
He yielded voluntarily when he sensed he had sold P544 worth of shabu to non-uniformed policemen led by Capt. Harmin Sinsuat, chief of Cotabato City’s Police Precinct 1 and Bongcayao.
Senior officials of intelligence units under the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, covering Cotabato City and nearby provinces, confirmed to reporters on Saturday that Angas and Dalandas are in their list of shabu and marijuana peddlers sharing income from their illegal activities to certain leaders of the now weakened allies Dawlah Islamiya and BIFF terror groups.
Commanders of large groups of Dawlah Islamiya and BIFF terrorists who had surrendered in batches in recent years and availed of 6th ID’s regional reconciliation program for violent religious extremists had openly confessed to their having coddled in their far-flung enclaves wanted persons and traffickers of shabu and marijuana in exchange for money.
Photo shows Dalandas, entrapped in Barangay Rosary Heights 4, now locked in a police detention facility.