COTABATO CITY – Anti-narcotics operatives arrested on Tuesday dawn one of the members of a drug syndicate operating in Maguindanao, Gen. Santos City and Cotabato City.
In a report, Director Juvenal Azurin of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-ARMM) identified the suspect as Nihara Sabayani Makmod, allegedly a member of Saba Drug Group operating in southern Mindanao.
Armed with search warrants, PDEA-ARMM operatives and Datu Odin Sinsuat police officers raided the house of Makmod in Barangay Awang, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao at 5 a.m. Makmod did not resist arrest.
Recovered from his house were suspected shabu with estimated market value of PHP50,000.
In separate anti-drug operations in Barangay Kusiong, also in Datu Odin Sinsuat town, PDEA and police operatives arrested six persons for illegal drugs and firearm possession.
Chief Inspector Achmad Alibonga, Datu Odin Sinsuat town police chief, said joint Army, police and PDEA law enforcement operatives arrested Antonio Roales, 62, businessman and resident of Barangay Kusiong.
Roales owned the Club Cusiong Beach resort.
Alibonga said the raiding team, backed by the Army’s 19th Infantry Battalion, was armed with arrest warrant issued by Regional Trial Court Branch 13 Executive Judge Bansawan Ibrahim for frustrated murder.
Also arrested with Roales were Jery Indo, 23, security guard, Reynald Anton, 28, helper, Orlando Mosela Ariston, 26 and Raymond Duran Clemente, 43, security guard and a resident of Upi, Maguindanao.
Seized from them were three .45 caliber pistol, a cal. 38 revolver, improvised shotgun, an improvised UZI submachinegun, a fragmentation grenade and ammunition for various caliber.
The suspects are facing charges of violation of Republic Act 9165 (Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act) and Republic Act 10591 (Illegal Possession of Firearms and Explosives). (PNA)
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