3 drug suspects nabbed with P1.3-M meth in Cotabato City

COTABATO CITY, Maguindanao, Philippines — Drug enforcement agents, backed by police officers and soldiers, arrested on Monday three drug peddlers in a buy-bust operation in this city and seized from them P13. million worth of suspected crystal meth.

The operation was conducted in Barangay Poblacion 8 at 3 p.m, with an undercover agent trying to buy 200 grams of meth from a certain “Saber,” according to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-BARMM).

Sensing he was dealing with an undercover agent, Saber quickly fled aboard a motorbike, leaving behind his three companions who were carrying the meth, locally known as s…

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