New tenants find P10-M shabu in apartment’s ceiling

Two persons who had just moved into an apartment in Quezon City found P10 million worth of shabu hidden in the ceiling, police said yesterday.

Visual effects compositors Joelou Peralta, 22, and Michael Bryan Bello, 32, discovered the shabu, wrapped in a plastic bag, in an opening in the bathroom’s ceiling.

“They investigated and discovered a heavily taped red plastic bag in the ceiling which they initially thought to contain a fetus,” Chief Superintendent Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, Quezon City Police District (QCPD) director, said.

In an interview with reporters, Eleazar said Peralta and Bello informed Barangay Apolonio Samson officials about the plastic bag. Police officers who responded to the scene later found out the bag contained shabu.

Eleazar ordered an investigation to determine the apartment’s previous tenants.

He lauded Peralta and Bello, who moved into the apartment about two months ago, for immediately reporting what they discovered to the police.

Also in Quezon City, eight drug suspects were arrested in separate operations on Thursday.

Eduardo Macapagal, 40; Mark Aquino, 28, and Michelle Gonzales, 29, were arrested in a sting at the Tizza Apartelle in Barangay E. Rodriguez just before 11 p.m.

Macapagal is a suspected drug dealer and user who surrendered under the government’s Oplan Tokhang program in November 2016, Eleazar said.

Fifteen sachets of shabu, two cell phones, assorted drug paraphernalia and P820 in cash were seized from the suspects.

Renato David, 36, and Julie Canaveral, 33, were caught in another sting in Barangay Balon Bato at around 9 p.m.

Seized from their possession were three sachets of shabu and drug paraphernalia.

Eugene Galicia, 18, was arrested in a sting in Barangay Bungad at around 10 p.m. Two sachets of shabu were confiscated from him.

Watchmen from Barangay Baesa caught Isabelo Layson, 18, carrying a sachet of dried marijuana leaves.

Tricycle driver Reymar Tabuc, 19, was arrested after police found eight sachets of shabu in his vehicle in Barangay Laging Handa.

BOY SANTOS Chief Superintendent Guillermo Eleazar and Superintendent Robert Sales inspect two kilos of high-grade shabu, found in the ceiling of an apartment in Quezon City, during a press conference yesterday.