CEBU SHOOTOUT – A drug suspect is sprawled on the ground after he and his two alleged cohorts engaged the police in a shootout during a buy-bust operation that ended in Barangay Taptap, Cebu City Thursday. (Photo contributed by Benjie Talisic)
CEBU CITY – Three men were killed while P68-million wort
Three suspected members of a drug ring were killed in a buy-bust operation in Cebu City on Thursday evening, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said Friday.
(Photo courtesy of Zamboanga City Police Office’s Station 11 via PNA / MANILA BULLETIN)
Maj. Chester Natividad, newly-installed Zamboanga City Police Office’s Station 11 chief, identified the suspect as Nurbaser Sakandal, 32, a native of Basilan and temporarily staying in Barangay Campo Islam.
Sakandal yielded some 150 grams of suspected shabu with an estimated worth of P1.8 million after he was arrested in a buy-bust operation at around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in Barangay Tetuan.
Before the sting operation, Natividad said the police undertook a two-week surveillance on Sakandal.
Sakandal was detained while appropriate charges were being readied against him.