P3.4-M worth shabu surrendered in Cotabato City PDEA sting

COTABATO CITY— Non-uniformed anti-narcotics agents clamped down two traffickers after selling to them P3.4 million worth of shabu in a tradeoff along one of the busiest thoroughfares in Cotabato City on Wednesday afternoon.

Gil Cesario Castro, director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, told reporters on Thursday that the duo, Kuyat Sansaluna Sangcala and King Fahad Mantuwang Ganoy, are now both locked in the detention facility of their office at the PC Hill area in Cotabato City.

Sangkala and Ganoy were entrapped at one side of the Sinsuat Avenue in Barangay Rosary Heights 10, Cotabato City with the help of units of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region and personnel of the National Bureau of Investigation.

“That successful entrapment operation was based on tips from vigilant residents of Cotabato City who have knowledge about their trading of narcotics around and in nearby areas,” Castro said.

Sangcala and Ganoy were busted barely two days after PDEA-BARMM agents arrested Nidsam Arsad Sulaiman in an anti-illegal drug sting along Jose Lim Sr. Street in Barangay Poblacion 5, Cotabato City that led to the confiscation from him of P340,000 worth of shabu.

Sulaiman was described by confidential informants as an “itinerant” shabu dealer who peddled shabu in his hometown, Dinas, in Zamboanga del Sur, in Pagadian City, and in the barangays in Cotabato City.

Sulaiman is wanted for armed robbery, extortion, motorcycle theft and large-scale peddling of shabu in different towns in Zamboanga del Sur and in its capital, Pagadian City.