3 Cotabato minors held for shabu

NORTH COTABATO, Philippines – Three minors, including a six-year-old child, were collared along with a 20-year-old man while selling shabu to anti-narcotics agents posing as drug dependents in Kabacan town on Monday night.

Senior Inspector Doren Mauricio of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group said policemen first lured the group led by Alvin Alamada, 20, to board a parked vehicle and there the shabu was taken from the six-year-old’s bag and given to the poseur buyers. The minors were turned over to social workers.