Twice acquitted drug suspect nabbed anew in Baguio buy-bust

BAGUIO City, Philippines – A "top priority" drug suspect, who had been acquitted twice, was arrested again on Wednesday in sting operation by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Baguio City.
 

Nabbed was Joel Nider alias Bong, nephew of Baguio City’s former "drug kingpin,” was arrested with his partner at the City Camp Alley, Barangay City Camp Proper.

The duo sold one sachet of shabu weighing .05 grams for one thousand pesos to a PDEA poseur-buyer.

The PDEA said that Nider is in the “Target List of Drug Personalities in the Cordillera Region” and a was a member of a notorious and long-existing drug group operating in the Cordillera and Ilocos Regions led by his uncle, that was recently disbanded by the authorities.

Arthur Nider, 52, Baguio’s topmost wanted drug dealer for three decades fell in a sting operation on November 12 last year.

The elder Nider headed the Nider Drug Group. He recruited as members in the drug ring his brothers, sisters and relatives.

The younger Nider, 33, is still single, a high school graduate, a waiter and resident of Slaughterhouse Area (Sto Niño), here. His father and another uncle were also members of the local drug group, the PDEA said.

A case for drug pushing under the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 has been filed against the younger Nider and his lover on Thursday.

Nider had been arrested for alleged drug pushing on September 8, 2003, but he was acquitted two years after.

In 2010, Nider was also arrested for drug pushing and again acquitted on May 2012.