P7M drugs seized from former police errand boy in buy-bust

CEBU, Philippines - A “level 2 drug pusher” who gets his stash allegedly from druglords operating from inside the National Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa yielded P7 million worth of illegal drugs in a buy-bust operation yesterday afternoon.

“Iyang source kay Munti boys,” said Senior Inspector Joey Bicoy, team leader of the Regional Anti-illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group operation.

Bicoy and his men arrested Jonathan Cañada, 40, in his residence on Tres de Abril Street, Barangay Labangon, Cebu City after the suspect handed to a police poseur buyer a 100-gram pack of suspected shabu in exchange for P150,000 in marked money.

Bicoy said they placed Cañada under surveillance for a week after they received information that he is into the illegal drugs trade.

The police confiscated a total of two large packs weighing 600 grams and the buy-bust money from Cañada, who is on the RAIDSOTG watchlist.

Bicoy said Cañada do bigtime transactions in his areas of operation in Metro Cebu and in northern Cebu, and gets his supply from druglords currently serving term in Muntinlupa.

Bicoy said Cañada used to be a “striker” or errand boy for the Civil Security Group of the Philippine National Police-7.

The suspect, who will face charges for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act, is currently detained at the Police Regional Office-7 stockade.—/RHM (FREEMAN)