BUSTED.Photo shows the recovered shabu and other evidence during an operation at a drug den in Barangay Mabuhay, General Santos City on Tuesday night (Nov. 2, 2021). Joint operatives led by elements from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Region 12 recovered some PHP74,800 worth of shabu and arrested seven suspects, including the alleged maintainer of the den. (Photo courtesy of PDEA-12) GENERAL SANTOS CITY -Joint anti-drug operatives have dismantled another alleged drug den and arrested seven suspected pushers and users in an operation at a housing village here late Tuesday night. Katryn Gaye Abad, information officer of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Region 12, said on Wednesday the drug den was uncovered during an entrapment around 10:25 p.m. in a house in Purok 27, Yamvill 1, Barangay Mabuhay. She said agents from the PDEA-12 special enforcement, Sultan Kudarat and Sarangani provincial offices, and the city police Station Number 4 launched the operation based
GENERAL SANTOS CITY -The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Region 12 (Soccsksargen) is closely monitoring the possible links to the illegal drug trade of several local candidates or aspirants in the May 2022 elections. Katryn Gaye Abad, PDEA-Region 12 spokesperson, disclosed the move on Friday in the wake of the recovery the other day of some PHP3.4 million worth of shabu from a mayoralty candidate in Maguindanao in an operation in Midsayap town, North Cotabato. She said their intelligence and enforcement units have a list of the target personalities and conducting surveillance operations based on a standing directive from PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva. Abad did not divulge further details of the operation but said that all levels of hierarchy in the target list are all monitored and whether they are involved as supporters, financiers, or protectors. "We assure the community that all of us in the regional level are doing everything to stop these drug personal
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Anti-drug operatives arrested a contractual government employee who was tagged as a high-value target drug pusher in a buy-bust in a village in Koronadal City on Thursday, September 30. Katryn Gaye Abad, spokesperson of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 12 (Soccsks
BUSTED. A witness signs the inventory sheet of the recovered illegal drugs from contractual government employee Jamil Desamito (in yellow shirt, 2nd from right), 40, who was arrested in a buy-bust led by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Region 12 in Barangay Sta. Cruz, Koronadal City on Thursday. The suspect is listed as a high-value target drug personality and has a pending case for the same offense. (Photo courtesy of PDEA-12) GENERAL SANTOS CITY - Anti-drug operatives arrested a contractual government employee who was tagged as a high-value target drug pusher in a buy-bust in a village in Koronadal City on Thursday. Katryn Gaye Abad, spokesperson of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 12 (Soccsksargen), said in a report on Friday that suspect Jamil Manara Desamito, 40, was nabbed around 11:35 a.m. after selling two large sachets of suspected shabu to an undercover agent. She said the recovered illegal drugs, which were confirmed in laboratory analysis, weighed 12 gra