SPD nets P.5-M shabu in anti-crime drive
Police seized around 115 grams of shabu, with an estimated street value of more than P500,000, in anti-crime operations in southern Metro Manila from Friday until yesterday morning.
At least 433 persons were arrested during the Southern Police District’s “simultaneous anti-criminality law enforcement operation (SACLEO),” SPD spokesperson Superintendent Jenny Tecson said yesterday.
Of this number, 372 were arrested for violating various city ordinances and 51 were subjects of arrest warrants. Eight more were arrested for drug use, including the third most wanted person in Taguig and the fifth most wanted person in Pateros.
In serving search warrants, police recovered 20 grams of shabu, with a street value of P100,000 and 95 grams of shabu with a street value of P450,000 from suspects with standing arrest warrants.
Police also recovered 12 sachets of marijuana and other drug paraphernalia along with a .38 caliber revolver, two hand grenades, an Ingram sub-machine gun, one casing and 51 bullets.
Lawmen also seized 107 motorcycles and three tricycles, Tecson said.
Tecson said the SACLEO was established to intensify its campaign to significantly reduce the crime rate in southern Manila by focusing on serving arrest and search warrants and apprehension of persons violating various city ordinances.
“The SACLEO operations for the past weeks favorably contributed to the decline of crimes within the SPD’s area of responsibility,” Tecson said.
In Manila, a policeman who had gone absent without leave in 2014 was arrested in a sting yesterday.
Police Officer 2 Francisco Ylagan, assigned at Camp Crame, was arrested along with Nielsen Mosqueda and Jessica Grace Cabrera along Quintos street in Malate before dawn. Twenty-one sachets of shabu were reportedly seized from the suspects.
Police also arrested 27 others in Quezon City, 10 in Manila and two each in Pasig, Mandaluyong and Caloocan on drug charges since Friday night.