8 drug den operators arrested in Kidapawan City
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Anti-narcotics agents clamped down on eight individuals together operating a drug den in Kidapawan City in an operation on Monday, October 27, that also resulted in the confiscation from them of P102,000 worth of shabu, a .45 caliber pistol and explosives.
City officials and barangay leaders who helped the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency 12 carry out the law-enforcement operation said the leader of the group, whose name they withheld in the meantime, resisted arrest but was eventually subdued and cuffed by PDEA-12 agents and policemen involved in the drug den raid.
Charlene Magdurulang, director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-12, said on Tuesday that all eight suspects are now locked in a detention facility, to be prosecuted for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
The agents of PDEA 12 and operatives from the Kidapawan City Police Office and the Police Regional Office 12 launched the operation after local executives reported that all eight now detained suspects together facilitated pot sessions in their drug den along Alim Street in Kidapawan City.
Magdurulang said she is thankful to local executives in Kidapawan City and to the director of PRO-BAR, Brig. Gen. Arnold Ardiente, for supporting their operation that resulted in the arrest of the eight suspects and the shutdown of their drug den, now guarded by volunteer community watchmen and barangay officials.
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