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Mindanao groups eyed in Negros drug trade

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BACOLOD CITY — Police are looking into the possible involvement of groups from Mindanao in the illegal drug trade in Negros Occidental.

This, as two of six suspects arrested last Sunday afternoon in a drug buy-bust at Andrea Village in Cadiz City, 65.2 kilometers north of this city, hail from Mindanao, police said.

Hours after the buy-bust, the Bacolod police nabbed nine Tawi-Tawi residents for possession of high-powered firearms and 230 grams of shabu aboard the M/V Bacolod at the Banago port here.

The raid on the rented house of one Elmer "Habib" Into in Cadiz was an offshoot of a series of drug busts by a Bacolod police team led by Inspector Clarence Dongail that resulted in the seizure of 1.6 kilos of shabu in three weeks.

Police said Into claimed to be a member of the Abu Sayyaf during interrogation.

Senior Superintendent Geary Barias, provincial police director, said two men arrested along with Into — Maribindo and Rodel Demasangcay — may have been members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front since both reside in Lanao del Norte, a known MILF stronghold.

A picture of Rodel in full-battle gear was among the things found in his possession.— Antonieta Lopez

ABU SAYYAF

ANDREA VILLAGE

ANTONIETA LOPEZ

BACOLOD

CADIZ CITY

INSPECTOR CLARENCE DONGAIL

MARIBINDO AND RODEL DEMASANGCAY

MINDANAO

MORO ISLAMIC LIBERATION FRONT

NEGROS OCCIDENTAL

SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT GEARY BARIAS

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