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PRESS RELEASE # 112/14 DATE : March 4, 2014 AUTHORITY : UNDERSECRETARY ARTURO G. CACDAC, JR., CEO VI Director General For more information, comments and suggestions please call: Director DERRICK ARNOLD C. CARREON, Director, Public Information Office Tel. No. 929-3244, 927-9702 Loc.131; Cell phone: 09159111585

PDEA NEUTRALIZES DRUG DEN IN CITY

Anti-narcotics agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) neutralized a drug den and arrested its owner and maintainer and six visitors during a buy-bust operation in Cagayan de Oro City on March 01, 2014.

PDEA Director General Undersecretary Arturo G. Cacdac, Jr. said that agents of PDEA Regional Office 10 (PDEA RO10) under Director Emerson L. Margate arrested Ivan Cagulada y Obsioma, 30 years old, drug den owner and suspected six visitors who were inside his residence doubling as drug den.

The suspected six visitors were identified as Lindo Clavano y Tilap, 42; Restituto Valdez y Clavano, 42; Ronald Recaport y Sopeters, 30, all residents of Regency Plain Subdivision, Iponan, Cagayan de Oro City; Mike Eben y Cedeño, 45, of City, ; Ian Lomagat y Pactolerin, 30, a resident of Bonbon, Cagayan de Oro City; and Roy Bahian y Ygloria, 45, a resident of El Salvador City, .

At around 1:40 p.m., along Zone 2, Upper Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City, an undercover agent from PDEA RO10 who posed as buyer was able to hatch a transaction with Cagulada and bought one piece of transparent plastic sachet of methamphetamine hydrochloride, or shabu. The suspect was immediately apprehended after handing the illegal drug to the poseur-buyer, in exchange for the P500-peso marked bill used as buy-bust money.

The buy-bust operation led to the discovery of the drug den when PDEA RO10 operatives searched the house. Three pieces of transparent heat-sealed plastic sachets containing suspected shabu weighing approximately three grams, various drug paraphernalia, cash amounting P460.00 in various denominations, and four mobile phones in various brands were found inside the drug den.

Cagulada will be charged for violation of Section 5 (Selling Illegal Drugs), Section 6 (Maintaining of Drug Den) and Section 11 (Possession of Dangerous Drugs), Article II, of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. The six suspects will be charge for violation Section 11 and Section 7 (Visitor of a Drug Den).

On the same day, the same law enforcement unit conducted a delivery entrapment operation at Vamenta Subdivision, Barra, Opol, Misamis Oriental which resulted in the arrest of Wahid Pisigi y Macabantog, 21, of Block 20, Lot 65, Vamenta Subdivision, Barra, Opol, Misamis Oriental; and Elmer Insik y Caloy, 37, a resident of Vamenta Subdivision, Barra,Opol, Misamis Oriental.

The two suspects were able to deliver one piece large rectangular transparent heat-sealed plastic sachet containing suspected shabu weighing 40 grams to a PDEA agent who acted as the buyer.

Pisigi and Insik are temporarily detained at the PDEA RO10 jail facility. They will face charges for violation of Sections 5 and 11 of RA 9165.

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