The chief of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said on Sunday, June 20, that the agency is amenable to any probe pertaining to the country’s enforcement of the anti-illegal drug campaign amid insinuations that it was tainted with extra-judicial killings and other forms of human rights...
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) agents arrested six alleged drug pushers including two Nigerian nationals who yielded P204,000 worth of suspected crystal meth (shabu) and other drugs in a buy-bust operation in Dau, Pampanga on Thursday night, June 17. Director-General Wilkins Villanueva...
TALAYAN, Maguindanao – Anti-narcotics operatives on Wednesday afternoon seized P3.4-million worth of shabu from a drug suspect who evaded arrest. Director Juvenal Azurin, of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Bangsamoro Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-BARMM), identified the subject of...
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), wants to immediately destroy the more than P1 billion worth of shabu which were seized during two succeeding buy-busts in Parañaque City and Cavite on June 13. In a statement, Eleazar said that he had already directed...
Joint teams of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and Philippine National Police (PNP) arrested on Tuesday, June 15 three drug pushers and confiscated P135.4 million worth of shabu in separate buy-bust operations in Parañaque City and Las Piñas City. PDEA spokesperson Derrick Carreon...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Wallstreet Courier Services Incorporated (Ninja Van) signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) on Tuesday, June 15, in a bid to address the problem of drug trafficking using the courier service providers. Ninja Van is a technology company that...
Anti-narcotics personnel of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) seized more than P1 billion worth of shabu in two separate buy-bust operations in Parañaque City and Cavite on Sunday, June 13, the biggest illegal drugs haul this year in one day....
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said Thursday night, June 10, that it will seek the advice of the Office of Solicitor General (OSG) after th e Court of Appeals (CA) ordered the removal of Leyte Third District Rep. Vicente Veloso from the list of the Inter-Agency Drug Information...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) awarded a total of P3,594,314.94 in cash reward on Monday, June 7, to 16 civilian informants who provided information that led to the confiscation of “voluminous’’ amounts of illegal drugs and arrest of the high-value drug personalities under its...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) inaugurated Friday, May 28, its new multi-purpose building with amenities for the use and well-being of its personnel. PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva (Photo courtesy of PDEA) PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva said the four-storey...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Tuesday, May 25, underscored the need to improve coordination among law enforcement agencies after separate drug buy-bust operations of the Novaliches police station drug enforcement unit and agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) almost led to...
Finding Answers Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina Unless otherwise repealed, amended, suspended, or superseded, a law supposedly remains in effect and it ought to be implemented no matter what – unless, of course, budgetary constraints make it impossible to do so. RA 9165 or the Comprehensive...
