PDEA-BARMM nabs 3 drug den operators
COTABATO CITY — Anti-narcotics agents busted three drug traffickers and closed their drug den in an operation in Barangay Rosary Heights 10 in this city on Saturday.
The cohorts Rodrigo P. Pardillo, Sr. and his son, Rodrigo D. Pardillo, Jr., and Jay-Jay B. Apiag are now locked in a detention facility of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-BARMM) at the Pedro Colina Hill Area in Cotabato City.
Gil Cesario P. Castro, director of PDEA-BARMM, told reporters on Monday morning that the three were immediately arrested after selling P149,000 worth of crystal meth (shabu) to their non-uniformed agents and policemen in a tradeoff.
Mr. Castro said the operation was laid with the help of the Cotabato City Police Office and barangay officials. The drug den of the three now detained shabu dealers was immediately locked by PDEA-BARMM agents, now guarded by barangay officials and volunteer community watchmen. — John Felix M. Unson