CEBU CITY – Suspected shabu worth more than P35 million was seized in buy-bust operations here and the province of Bohol.
PACKS of suspected shabu worth P34 million were seized from a woman in Barangay Carreta, Cebu City on Friday, October 11. (PDEA 7)
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7) arrested a 51-year-old woman with five kilos of shabu valued at P34 million in Barangay Carreta here at past 3 p.m. on Friday, October 11.
The suspect was identified as Maria Christine Gonzales Abarquez, a resident of Barangay Cogon, this city.
The contraband confiscated from the suspect weighed at least five kilos, said Leia Alcantara, information officer of PDEA-7.
Alcantara added that Abarquez was monitored for three weeks before she was cornered.
The suspect was reportedly capable of selling at least five kilos of shabu a week in the cities of Mandaue, Lapu-Lapu, and Cebu, Alcantara said.
Abarquez was arrested for drug pushing in 2016.
The other operation was conducted in Barangay San Isidro, Dauis town, Bohol on Thursday, October 10.
Arrested were live-in partners Nico Enrique Mascariñas, 51, and Joanne Naquila, 34.
Seized from the couple were 185 grams of suspected shabu worth P1.2 million.
Police Lt. Col. Joemar Pomarejos, chief of the intelligence unit of the Bohol Provincial Police Office, said it was the third time that Mascariñas was arrested.
Mascariñas was arrested in 2013 and 2017 for drug and gun charges, said Pomarejos.
Pomarejos added that the suspect is also facing murder charges.