3 drug den operators busted in PDEA-12 operation
COTABATO CITY — Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-12 arrested three drug den owners in an entrapment operation in Barangay Libertad in Surallah, South Cotabato on Thursday, May 22.
Benjamin Recites III, director of PDEA-12, told reporters on Friday, May 23, that all three male suspects, entrapped with the help of units under Brig. Arnold Ardiente, director of the Police Regional Office-12, are now locked in a detention facility.
Local officials had confirmed that the three men operated a clandestine drug den in Zone 2-A in Barangay Libertad in Surallah, now guarded by volunteer community watchmen.
Recites said the suspects surrendered peacefully when they found out that they had sold P124,000 worth of shabu to non-uniformed PDEA-12 agents and policemen during a tradeoff right in the premises of their drug den.
Recites said local executives and officials of the Surallah Municipal Police Station vowed to help prosecute all three suspects in court.
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