P6.8-M ‘shabu’ seized from teacher, 3 others in Maguindanao
DATU ODIN SINSUAT, Maguindanao--A team of anti-narcotics operatives, police and military personnel arrested on Friday a Maguindanao lady public school teacher and three other cohorts during a drug bust operation, an official of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-Armm) said.
PDEA-Armm Director Juvenal Azurin identified the suspect as Salama Diwa Talib, a teacher of Datu Unsay Elementary School in Maguindanao.
Azurin said Talib yielded P6.8-million worth of suspected “shabu” following a buy-bust operation at a gasoline station in Sitio Badac, Barangay Awang, Datu Odin Sinsuat town.
Talib’s three companions, identified as Saiden Yusa, Mahmod Dimudtang, and Nasser Pasawilan, all of legal age, were also arrested.
Azurin, who led the operation himself, said the entrapment operation against Talib and her cohorts came about after the agency received information from concerned citizens about the group’s drug-peddling activities in Maguindanao.
The operatiion involved a PDEA poseur-buyer, who had negotiated with Talib’s group to acquire some 50 grams of “shabu” worth P300,000.
At past 5 p.m., PDEA operatives, backed by elements of the Army’s 19th Infantry Battalion and Maguindanao Provincial Police Drug Enforcement Unit, pounced on Talib after she handed over the stuff and received the supposed P300,000 cash from the PDEA poseurbuyer.
“We placed an original P1,000 bill on top of photocopied cut paper money inside a paper bag to SHABU,9