CAMP Olivas, City of San Fernando, Pampanga – Police arrested two suspected members of the West African Drug Syndicate and seized suspected shabu worth over P1.7 million in a buy-bust operation in Angeles City on Saturday, Jan. 28.
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MANILA - The Court of Appeals (CA) has affirmed the sentence imposed on a Polish national for receiving more than three kilograms of shabu from an Indonesian contact 10 years ago. In its 37-page decision dated December 14 and written by Associate Justice Angelene Mary Q. Quimpo-Sale, the CA's First Division affirmed the decision of the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 53 finding Barbara Ewa Ziontkowska guilty of transporting dangerous drugs and sentencing her to life imprisonment and a fine of PHP1 million. Ziontkowska, 48, was arrested in an entrapment operation at the Soriente Hotel, in Manila in May 2011 which came days after the arrest of Media Aprideri, an Indonesian national and a suspected member of the West African Drug Syndicate. The Polish national had flown into Manila from Dublin, Ireland where she worked after the recipients of the drug package from Aprideri were not able to show up. Aprideri had been arrested on May 19, 2011 by the NBI - Reaction, Arrest Interdictio
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 31) Authorities recovered ₱13.6 million in shabu in a drug bust in Tarlac on Thursday, a report from the Philippine National Police said.
The report said the foiled drug deal involved the West African Drug Syndicate.
Gabriel Onyechefula, a Nigerian national, was killed after he figured in an armed confrontation with the arresting officers. PNP Drug Enforcement Group PBGen Ronald Lee said Onyechefula was the subject of the operation.
Lee said Onyechefula pulled out a gun during the bust, prompting the police to defend themselves.
According to Lee, the WADS is a transnational drug syndicate responsible for the trafficking of shabu and cocaine into the country that also recruits Filipinos to become drug mules.