QUEZON City policemen arrested two suspected drug dealers who yielded about P9 million worth of methamphetamine hydrocloride, or shabu, during an antidrug operation in the city on Wednesday morning.
Chief Supt. Edgardo G Tinio, Quezon City police chief, identified the suspects as Paul L. Co, Filipino, 44, businessman, of 27 Seminary Road, Bahay Toro, Quezon City and Arvin O. Caray, 38, family driver, of 2827 H. Santos, Tejeros, Makati City.
Tinio said a team from the District Anti-Illegal Drugs-Special Operations Task Group (DAID-SOTG) headed by Chief Insp. Enrico Figueroa, and District Special Operations Unit (DSOU) headed by Supt. Jay Agcaoli, collared the suspects at the corner of V. Luna Avenue and Mapagbigay Street, Piñahan, Quezon City, at about 5:45 a.m.
The lawmen seized from the duo about 3 kilos of suspected shabu with a street value of P9 million.
Tinio said the operation followed two weeks of investigation and surveillance.
Aside from the 3 kilos of shabu, police operatives seized from the suspects a Suzuki Swift car with license plate JTS-88, three cellular telephones, and P10,000 in P1,000 bills which were incorporated in the “boodle money” to make up the agreed purchase price of P1 million for a kilo of the drug.
The suspects are now detained at the DAID-STOG detention cell and will be charged for violation of selling dangerous drugs (Section 5), Article II of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.