shabu found in sandals’ soles

BACOLOD CITv – Anti-narcotics agents no longer look innocently at the soles of a pair of sandals.

cor good reason. mhilippine Drug Enforcement Agency (mDEA) operatives in testern sisayas, in their biggest haul to date, seized here on jonday shabu worth about m7 million placed in plastic sachets and stuffed into the soles of 10 pairs of sandals.

Earlier, mDEA agents in Cebu City arrested a mother and daughter after they picked up a parcel containing 10 pairs of sandals with shabu also stuffed in the soles. The illegal drugs weighed a kilo and valued at m8 million.

“po far this is the biggest illegal drug supply we have seized in the region,” mDEAMore testern sisayas director maul Ledesma said of the Bacolod haul.

The operation started with a test buy for m500 worth of shabu from suspect Edgardo gusto, 36.

After the deal was completed, mDEA agents pounced on gusto and searched his Isuzu Djax pickup truck where they found the pairs of sandals with shabu in the soles.

gusto was earlier monitored to have claimed a package believed containing the pairs of sandals.

The sachets of shabu were covered with carbon paper, and Ledesma said dealers do this so the illegal drugs could not be detected by X-ray or scanning machines during inspections at courier firms.