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2 held for P.1million party drugs

(The Philippine Star) - March 19, 2018 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines — More than P175,000 worth of the party drugs Ecstasy and
cocaine were confiscated from two suspects in a drug sting in Quezon City before dawn
yesterday.

Kevin Costes and Chrestien Deryck Angele, 21, were nabbed by anti-narcotics agents
at an apartelle in Barangay Doña Imelda at around 2:30 a.m.

Police said Costes and Angele allegedly yielded four sachets of shabu, five grams of
cocaine worth P25,000 as well as 90 pieces of Ecstasy tablets worth P153,000.

The suspects have been under surveillance by the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) drug
enforcement unit since December last year.

Police tagged Costes and Angele as the alleged suppliers of drugs, especially to female patrons in
bars in Quezon City, Makati, Parañaque, Alabang and Cavite.

QCPD director Chief Superintendent Guillermo Eleazar said the arrest of the suspects was an
offshoot of an anti-drug operation last December, which led to the seizure of more than P1
million worth of drugs.

Nine more drug suspects, including three minors, were arrested in separate operations in
Barangays Pasong Tamo, Bahay Toro and Greater Fairview yesterday.

In eastern Metro Manila, eight persons were apprehended in anti-narcotics operations.

Marc Lionel Gonzales was collared by police along Xavier street in Barangay Barangka in
Marikina.

Police Officer 1 Gabriel Lar Justiniano said Gonzales allegedly yielded five sachets of shabu, a
.45-caliber handgun and P100 in marked money.

In Pasig City, Christian Sallan and Ritz Von Bacor were nabbed at the corner of San Agustin and
Baltazar streets in Barangay Palatiw.

Police said they recovered six sachets of shabu and P200 in marked money from the suspects.
Marissa Aveñon and Roberto Basallote were nabbed during a drug sting along Purok Catleya in
Barangay Pinagbuhatan.

Authorities said they confiscated from the suspects 60 sachets of shabu and drug paraphernalia.

Jomar Bajo was accosted by police for creating trouble along Caruncho Avenue in Barangay
Malinao.

When frisked, Bajo allegedly yielded a pack of shabu.

In Mandaluyong City, suspected drug pushers Fe Figueroa, alias Mama Fe, and Mary Joy
Ordoñez were apprehended in Barangay Addition Hills.– Non Alquitran

P7.5-M party drugs and shabu seized in QC

QUEZON CITY, Philippines — Almost P7.5 million worth of shabu and party
drugs were seized by the joint forces of PDEA, Quezon City Police and Northern
Police District Drug Enforcement Unit, Wednesday night, August 2, at Barangay
Obrero, Tomas Morato.
Authorities arrested 34 –year-old Warren Calicdan and 21-year old live-in couple,
Hazel Grace Lanugan and Rafael Tadoran after an operative posed as a buyer of
party drug, Ecstasy.
Over 2,000 Ecstasy tablets; 200 Ecstasy capsules; 8 bottles of liquid Ecstasy and
100 grams of suspected shabu were recovered from the suspects.
National Capital Region Police Office Director PCSupt. Guillermo Eleazar said
that majority of the trio’s customers are party goers and regular bar patrons.
“Itong distribution ng party drugs known sa atin sa may BGC area, Taguig area,
Quezon City, along Tomas Morato, Timog Avenue kung saan may mga bars,” he
said.
(These party drugs are distributed in the areas of BGC, Taguig and Quezon City
along Tomas Morato, Timog Avenue where the bars are located.)
Authorities have intensified monitoring of similar organized crimes that source
illegal drugs abroad and even ship them at times through popular courier
companies.
“Pinapadala lang po galling sa ibang bansa (It is sent to us from another country),”
said suspect, Hazel Grace Lanugan. “May magtetext po sa akin… na parating yung
package,” she added.
The suspects will be facing charges for violating Republic Act 9165 or the
Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs of 2002. — Reynante Ponte | UNTV News &
Rescue

P100,000 worth of illegal drugs seized

Updated February 7, 2018, 5:33 PM

By Alexandria Dennise San Juan

A P100,000 worth of illegal drugs, including a “high grade” marijuana, were seized from two
alleged drug peddlers during a joint drug sting operations in Quezon City late Thursday night.

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Quezon City Police District director PCSupt Guillermo Eleazar presented to the media today two
alleged drug personalities they identified as Merhan Jahiron, a 28-year-old sales assistant of
Barangay East Kamias, and Joven Cariño, 20, a resident of Sampaloc, Manila.

It appears that the operation was an offshoot of their previous bust on December 31 which
resulted in the recovery of P1 million worth of party drugs and the of four drug suspects
including a magazine editor named Niña Recio.

QCPD Drug Enforcement chief Ferdinand Mendoza said that Recio, his former live-in partner
Raul Cisneros who was arrested in Taguig City in September 2016 also for selling party drugs,
and the latest arrested suspects have the same supplier, who police said, is a foreign national.

After learning the connection of Jahiron and Cariño to the previous arrested drug suspects, joint
operatives of the DDEU, Galas Police Station (PS-11) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement
Agency National Capital Region Office (PDEA-NCRO) carried out a buy-bust operation.

At about 10:30 p.m., arresting officers set the operation at a gasoline station at the corner of E.
Rodriguez Sr. Avenue and D. Tuazon Street in Barangay Doña Josefa.

Upon dealing of the poseur-buyer with the target suspects, authorities immediately collared the
duo.

Four plastic sachets of Kush or a high-grade marijuana, 21 tablets of ecstasy and two plastic bags
of cocaine, worth P100,000.

Mendoza said Kush, which grows in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, has 10 times the effect of
the usual marijuana, and is more expensive with a value of P3,000 per sachet weighing two
grams.

He added that this was the first time they have confiscated this type of drug.

Police are investigating how these illegal drugs are being delivered here in the country through
parcels.

According to Eleazar, they are looking into another three alleged drug peddlers who are also
buying from the same supplier outside the country.

Arrested suspects will be brought for inquest at the Quezon City Prosecutor for violation of
Republic Act 9165 or the Dangerous Drugs Act