Nargroup seizes P100 M in shabu

The Philippine National Police Narcotics Group scored anew in its drive against illegal drugs with the seizure of some 50 kilos of shabu with an estimated street value of about P100 million Friday afternoon in Caloocan City.

The contraband was confiscated in a warehouse located at Block 15, Lot 92, Phase 11, Area 3, Barangay 14, Tanigue corner Labahita streets, Kaunlaran Village, Caloocan during a raid led by Deputy Director Jewel Canson, head of the National Drug Law Enforcement and Prevention Coordinating Center.

This came after Canson’s men also seized the other day some P100-million worth of shabu from two Chinese nationals in southern Metro Manila.

Chief Inspector Cristeto Escobia, Northern Police District-Drug Enforcement Group chief, said the illegal drugs were in PVC cylinders inserted in rolls of maong textiles.

The shipment reportedly came from the People’s Republic of China.

The Narcotics men, however, failed to arrest their main target, a certain Wu Zhewei, a suspected big-time drug trafficker.

Zhewei was not around when the police, armed with a search warrant issued by Judge Victorino Alvaro of the Caloocan City Regional Trial Court, swooped down on the warehouse at about 3:30 p.m., Escobia said.

Canson earlier said that foreign drug taffickers, mostly from mainland China, are using the country as an international transshipment point for shabu.

He noted that drug syndicates continue to provide the local supply of illegal drugs by transporting them undetected through the country’s open coastline.

Meanwhile, in Valenzuela City, two suspected drug pushers were arrested during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Veinte Realis at around 10:45 p.m. Friday.

Police identified the suspects as Carlos Carizo, 19, and Nilda Carizo, 58, both of 201 T. Santiago street also in Veinte Realis.