ESTAMATED P180-MILLION WORTH OF 20 KILOS ILLEGAL DRUGS (SHABU) INTERCEPTED IN ZAMBOANGA CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS

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 9^th 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.

The items were wrapped in a 150 gram Milk Cartoon pack when the suspect persons are about to fly for Bongao, Tawi- Tawi on a Cebu Pacific flight. Accordingly, they arrived at the Zamboanga City yesterday from Terminal 3 Manila and had an overnight in Zamboanga City.

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