Two men were arrested after they were caught red-handed with more than P400,000 worth of shabu in separate anti-illegal drugs operations conducted by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and Manila Police District (MPD) in the city on Tuesday.
In the first incident, authorities arrested a Filipino-Chinese man during a buy-bust operation conducted by the PDEA at the Chinatown Gold Center on Ongpin Street in Sta. Cruz, Manila.
In front of the stalls selling jewelry, the suspect was caught carrying 50 grams of suspected shabu, worth an estimated P340,000.
In another operation, a person considered as a “high-value individual” and the no. 9 drug suspect on the watchlist of the Abad Santos Police Station was arrested after a buy-bust in Brgy. 61 in Tondo.
The suspect yielded a number of small and medium-sized sachets of shabu worth more than P81,000.
The suspects, who were not named in the police reports, have been jailed and now facing drug charges in Manila.