Php 1.6 BILLION WORTH OF SHABU SEIZED, 2 CHINESE NATIONALS ARRESTED(2)

Php 1.6 BILLION WORTH OF SHABU SEIZED, 2 CHINESE NATIONALS ARRESTED CABANATUAN CITY – A total of 240 kilos of shabu worth Php 1,632,000,000.00 was seized by joint elements of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Region III (PDEA-3), NAIA Inter-Agency Drug Interdiction Task Group (NAIA IADITG), Bureau of Customs, PDEA-NCR and the local police here which led to the arrest of two Chinese nationals in a controlled delivery operation along Sumacap Sur, Cabanatuan City late Friday evening of October 30, 2020. In his initial report to PDEA Director General, PDEA-3 Regional Director disclosed that the subject dangerous drugs were included in a cargo declared as “work bench table” shipped by a certain Ywlee 87 Trading from Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, and consigned to a certain company called, “Allejam International Trading” from the City of Manila. The Cargo arrived at PAL PSI Warehouse in Manila on October 24, 2020. Thru close coordination and surveillance, the misdeclared cargo was identified and subjected to X-ray scanning and physical examination which led to the discovery of heavily wrapped plastic packs of shabu. The operating teams set an entrapment operation, through controlled delivery operation, in Cabanatuan which resulted in the apprehension of two Chinese nationals, namely: 1. JAYSON TAN; and 2. JAMES ONG. Confiscated pieces of evidence were 240 kilos of shabu worth Php 1,632,000,000.00, one (1) unit VIVO Smart Phone, one (1) unit HONOR Smart Phone, two (2) NOKIA keypad cellular phone, one (1) Honda City color gray, one (1) Mitsubishi L300 Van, one (1) Honda City ignition key, and one (1) Mitsubishi L300 ignition key. Violation of Section 4 (Importation of Dangerous Drugs), Article II of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 will be filed against the arrested suspects.(Photos by: D, CS/C,PIO and PDEA RO III).