1 kilo of shabu seized from couple in Maguindanao del Norte

COTABATO CITY — Police seized P6.8 million worth of shabu from a couple entrapped in Barangay Limbo, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte, on Monday, April 13, with the help of Muslim religious leaders and Moro datus in the municipality.

Sultan Kudarat municipal officials told reporters on Tuesday that Usop Adil Angguling, 33 and his 28-year-old spouse, Gemma Abdullah Gomez Angguling, are now both detained in a police detention facility.

Brig. Gen. Jaysen De Guzman, director of the Police Regional Office–Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, said on Tuesday, April 14, that the duo was immediately detained by personnel of the Sultan Kudarat Municipal Police Station, led by their chief, Lt. Col. Esmael Madin, after selling shabu to them during an entrapment operation in Purok Sentro, Barangay Limbo.

The Maguindanao del Norte Provincial Police Office and other units of PRO-BAR assisted Madin and his subordinates in the entrapment operation, which resulted in the confiscation from Angguling and his wife of one kilo of shabu worth P6.3 million, a 9-millimeter pistol, and mobile phones containing the contact numbers of their accomplices in their shabu trafficking activities in the adjoining provinces of Maguindanao del Norte and Maguindanao del Sur.

De Guzman said they are thankful to local executives in Cotabato City, the capital of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, and their counterparts in Maguindanao del Norte and Maguindanao del Sur for supporting the entrapment operation that led to the arrest of the two suspects.

De Guzman added that the suspects will be prosecuted for violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, using the P6.8 million worth of shabu confiscated from them as evidence.