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DRUG DEN DISMANTLED. Ernesto Salibay (3rd from right), a suspected owner of a drug den, is arrested with his visitor in a raid on Friday afternoon (July 8, 2022) in Purok Alang Alang, Barangay Ipil, Surigao City. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Caraga Region said a total of PHP1,001,000 worth of illegal drugs were seized in four separate operations conducted in different areas in the region from July 4 to 8. (Photo courtesy of PDEA-13) BUTUAN CITY - Four separate operations conducted by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Caraga Region (PDEA-13) early this July have led to the confiscation of an estimated 146 grams of illegal drugs worth PHP1,001,000. The series of operations conducted on July 4, 5, 6, and 8 also resulted in the dismantling of two suspected drug dens and the arrest of eight suspects and one considered at large. Dindo Abellanosa of the information office of PDEA-13 on Saturday said the buy-bust on Friday afternoon in Purok Alang Alang, Barangay I ....
BUTUAN CITY – With the completion of the flood control project here, the flood problem along the downstream of this region’s fastest growing frontier and capital city of Butuan in Northeastern Mindanao (The Caraga Region) is now believed to be a ‘thing of the past.’