ZAMBOANGA CITY – The joint government operatives had
intercepted 20 kilos of illegal drugs locally known as shabu or identified as
methampitamine hydrochloride at about 7:00 o’clock in the morning on November
8, 2013 in Zamboanga City International Airport in Southern Philippines.
The baggage of certain Mohammad Daud and Salim Sabtari,
both from Bongao, Tawi-Tawi, containing more or less kilos of 20 kilos of
illegal drugs was intercepted by the joint elements of 9th Police
Civil Aviation Security, Regional Intelligence Division 9, Zamboanga City
Police Office, Criminal Investigation Detection Group, Philippine Drug
Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Office of Transportation for Security.
Chief of Aviation Security Command Southern Philippine International
Airport Police Superintendent Villamor Banawagan said that they were amazed in
spite of repeatedly check-up in the X-ray machine when they monitor the screen
the 2 big cartoon brought by the two suspects reflected color black that
prompted them to open.
They discovered that each kilo of illegal drugs was placed
inside the small canton of milk and wrap up by carbon paper before they mixed
it with the assorted biscuits’ inside the big cantons.
Initial investigation disclosed, the stuff, according to
them, was given by a certain “Aping” in Ermita, Manila for transport to Lahad
Datu and Samporna, both of Sabah, Malaysia.
The estimated street sale of the confiscated illegal drugs
is worth 180 million pesos, PDEA said.
Investigation is still going on for the filling of
appropriate cases by the Anti-Illegal Drug Special Operation Task Force with
the support of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and Anti- Illegal Drug
Special Operation Task Force. By JONG CADION
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