Cotabato City— PDEA Drug Enforcement Officers BARMM, along with the 55th Infantry Battalion Philippine Army and support unit Wao Municipal Police Station, successfully conducted a buy-bust operation, shut down a drug den, and arrested its maintainer and seven other cohorts in the vicinity of Purok 2, Barangay Panang, Wao, Lanao Del Sur.
Confiscated and recovered were fifteen (15) pieces of heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets weighing more or less 15 grams of methamphetamine hydrochloride, or Shabu, worth ₱102,000.00, one (1) piece of an open, transparent plastic sachet containing suspected Dried Mariuana Leaves three (3) Pot of Mariuana Plant, buy-bust money and various drug paraphernalia.
The apprehended suspects were identified as Masigay Tumbaji Daut, (drug den maintainer), 52 years old, female, Disinon Moda Mabagur, 45 years old, Aliton Tumbaji Baut, 21 years old, single, Era Daut Orab, Montasir Tumbaji Daut, Maulana Mago Abad, Dioselito Ayson Capucao. The suspects are now detained at the PDEA Jail Facility while awaiting an inquest proceeding for violation of RA 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
