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PDEA busts drug ring in Tacurong City

COTABATO CITY, March 4 (PNA) -- Anti-narcotics officials in Soccsksargen on Saturday vowed to crush the illegal drug trade in the region as drug personalities appeared to have resumed their "illegal business" when police-led campaigns slowed down.

Kath Abad, speaking for the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Mindanao (PDEA-Central Mindanao), said Thursday's arrest of four suspects actively involved in the illegal drug trade in Sultan Kudarat province has destroyed a network of big-time drug pushers.

Abad told DXMS-AM Radyo Bida that after a long and tedious covert operation, a PDEA-led anti-drug operation led to the arrest of Norodin Amolan, 33, of Barangay Poblacion, Tacurong City; Abubakar Ugalingan, 25, of Barangay Ambalgan, Sto. Niño, South Cotabato; Nike Quibuyen, 25, of President Quirino, Sultan Kudarat; and Jay-R Hablero, 26, of Barangay Libertad, Surallah, South Cotabato.

Amolan and Ugalingan, according to Abad, were in the list of most wanted drug personalities in the Soccsksargen region.

A PDEA agent, posing as a buyer, managed to secure several sachets of illegal drugs from Amolan and Ugalingan during the operation in Biaca Subdivision, Barangay Poblacion, Tacurong City.

PDEA-Soccsksargen regional director Gil Cesario Castro, in a statement, said anti-narcotics agents seized 15 sachets of shabu with an estimated market value of PHP35,000, a digital weighing scale and shabu paraphernalia.

The suspects, currently detained at the PDEA-Soccsksargen lock-up cell in Gen. Santos City, are facing charges for violating Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

Abad said PDEA will continue to fulfill its new mandate as lead agency in the war on drugs. She lauded the support provided by the Tacurong City police and the local government. (PNA)
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