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ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Authorities intercepted yesterday another
big shipment of shabu — the third one in in three months — the Zamboanga City Airport.
The latest interception involved 200 grams
of suspected methampetamine hydrochloride concealed in coffee packs sent in
from Manila via LBC cargo
forwarder.
Police said identified the sender of the
package containing the shabu as Abdusahar Salbi and the consignee as Nadzmer
Murajam of Jolo, Sulu.
The shipment is worth P1 million. It was
detected around 8 a.m. on Jan 16, 2014
after the package underwent x-ray check.
On November 9 last year, close to 20
kilograms of shabu valued at between P60 to 70 million were intercepted at the Zamboanga City
airport.
Two men bringing the shipment from Manila
were arrested.
Police said the Nov. 9 shabu shipment was
intended to be smuggled to Malaysia via Zamboanga City and Tawi-Tawi.
Nabbed were Salim Sabtari y Kalim and
Mohammad Daud Arabani y Hashim, both residents of Tawi-Tawi.
Airport authorities saw through the x-ray
machine a total of 18 small milk
cartons sealed inside the two big balikbayan boxes. They became
suspicious because some of the small cartons contained dark substance.
Sabtari and Arabani were immediate
held.They were ordered to open the two big boxes which were found to be
containing shabu.
Aside from grocery and junk food items, the
two balikbayan boxes contained 18 boxes of Alaska milk of 700 grams and several
other small boxes
of the same powder milk.
It was found out that all the 700-gram
boxes contained shabu more or less 1 kilogram each, while the small boxes
contained genuine Alaska powder
milk.
During actual inspection and inventory,
police and PDEA agents found out that the shabu packs were wrapped with carbon paper and were
resealed inside aluminum pack of the milk then sealed again inside the boxes.
The dark substance seen through the x-ray machine was the carbon paper wrap.
It was learned that Sabtari and Arabani
arrived in Zamboanga City from Manila last Thursday bringing along the two big
boxes containing the shabu.
About two weeks later, a parcel containing
an estimated P3 million worth of methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu) was
intercepted again at the Zamboanga airport.
The airport interdiction operation was
carried out by the Office for Transportation Security of the Department of
Transportation and Communications, with the support of PDEA and other law
enforcement units in Zamboanga City, on November 21, 2013.
PDEA Director General Undersecretary Arturo
G. Cacdac, Jr. said the illegal drug, with estimated value of P3 million, was
concealed in eight plastic bundles wrapped with electrical tape, together with
flip-flop sandals inside a package bound for Tawi-Tawi.
At around 5:30 pm, combined elements of OTS
DOTC, Police Center for Aviation Security 9, Zamboanga International Airport
Police Station, City’s Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Force
(CAIDSOTF) Regional Intelligence Division 9, and PDEA Regional Office 9 (PDEA
RO 9) under the direct supervision of Director Jeffrey Bangsa, intercepted the
600 grams of shabu at the initial screening area of Zamboanga International
Airport, Zamboanga City.
“The shabu package arrived at the Zamboanga
International Airport via Philippine Airlines Flight Number 2P993 on November
21, 2013, and was scheduled for shipment to Tawi-tawi a day after,” Cacdac
said. The package was sent by a certain Gloria Fernandez of Dagupan,
Pangasinan, using a local courier service, and was to be delivered to one of
its branches in Bongao, Tawi-tawi.-Dan Toribio. Jr.
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