Police arrest lady drug courier in Zamboanga del Sur

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, Jan. 25 (PNA) -- The police have intercepted a shipment of shabu and arrested the suspected drug courier Friday evening in the municipality of Molave, this province.

Arrested was Mailynjean Victoria alias May-May, 22, an alleged Ozamis City-based drug courier, according to Provincial police director Senior Supt. Sofronio Ecaldre.

Ecaldre said the suspect was arrested at a checkpoint along Quezon Street, Barangay Madasigon, Molave, while she was on her way to deliver shabu coming from Ozamis City.

Chief Insp. Nurhassan Pailan, Molave police chief, said they immediately conducted mobile checkpoint after receiving an information that a lady drug courier named Maria Evenia was aboard a passenger van from Ozamis on her way to deliver shabu in Molave town.

Pailan said the suspect later turned out to be Mailynjean Victoria instead of Maria Evenia.

Pailan said the suspect alighted from the van as the vehicle was approaching the checkpoint which prompted them to accost and inspect her shoulder bag that yielded 100 small sachets of shabu.

He said the 100 sachets of shabu was placed in a big square-shape heat-sealed sachet wrapped with table napkin.

He said the suspect revealed during the investigation that the she was only ordered by certain Cathy Rubio to deliver the said package to a certain John Mark in the municipality of Molave.

He said charges for violation of Section 5 of Republic Act 9165 otherwise known as the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 will be filed against the suspect. (PNA)
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