According to Superintendent Florencio Ortilla, chief of the MPD’s anti-illegal drug division (DAID), those arrested were beleived responsible for the distribution of shabu in Manila, Pasay City and Parañaque City.
DAID operatives had conducted continuous surveillance operations on the suspects from Manila to Pasay, following receipt of information that they were to deliver shabu to one of their buyers, Ortilla added.
Accompanied by a police asset, Ortilla and his men waited at the parking area of a large shopping mall in Pasay City where the drug transaction was supposed to take place.
The suspects arrived shortly to meet with a DAID operative who acted as a poseur-buyer. Ortilla and his men pounced on the suspects after the transaction took place.
The suspects were identified as Morsie MacArthur, 19; Muktar Mohammad, 32; and his wife Jovy, 23, all residents of Baclaran in Parañaque City.
Seized from the suspects were several plastic sachets containing suspected shabu placed inside two plastic bags.
Ortilla said the seized drugs could fetch some P2 million.
During interrogation, the suspects admitted supplying shabu to drug users in Manila, Pasay City and Parañaque City. However, they refused to name their source of the illegal drugs.
Charges of violation of the anti-illegal drugs law were filed against the three suspects.