(Photo courtesy of PDEA-BARMM / MANILA BULLETIN)
Director Juvenal Azurin of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-BARMM) said the simultaneous operations yielded 1.5 kilos of suspected shabu, a pistol, and two vehicles.
Azurin identified the first suspect as Romie Diamillah Hadji Alawi, who was arrested by PDEA agents and soldiers under the Marine Battalion Landing Team (MBLT-5) and Army’s 55th and 82nd Infantry Battalions in Barangay Matalin at around 11:40 a.m.
“He did not resist arrest when government forces arrested him beside the highway. We seized a kilo of shabu with an estimated street value of PHP6.8-million from Alawi,” Azurin told the Philippine News Agency (PNA) in an interview.
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