BUSTED. Anti-narcotics agents account for the illegal drugs seized from four suspects (in hoodie jackets and handcuffs), including a policeman, during an anti-drug operation in Barangay San Raymundo, Jolo, Sulu, on Thursday night (Sept. 12, 2024). Seized from the group (inset) were P13.6 million worth of shabu. (Photo courtesy of PDEA-BARMM)
COTABATO CITY – Authorities arrested a police officer and three others and seized PHP13.6 million worth of shabu in an anti-drug operation in Jolo, Sulu on Thursday night.
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency- Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-BARMM) director Gil Cesario Castro identified the suspects as Staff Sgt. Moh Radja Ismula, 49, of the Sulu Police Provincial Offce and civilians Andam M. Alidjam, 65; Midarmi Alidjam, 44; and Rahsi Jallaw, 54, all residents of Jolo town.
"During the 6 p.m. buy-bust operation in Barangay San Raymundo, PDEA agents recovered two large sachets of suspected shabu weighing 2,000 grams," Castro said in a report on Friday.
The suspects also yielded buy-bust money, two mobile phones, identification cards, bank receipts, and a motorcycle.
Ismula is the second police officer to be arrested in a buy-bust operation in the BARMM in the past 10 days.
On Sept. 4, PDEA agents apprehended a policeman and three others in Barangay Sanga-Sanga, Bongao, Tawi-Tawi, confiscating shabu worth PHP68,000.
Since January, anti-drug operations across BARMM have led to the seizure of nearly PHP100 million worth of shabu. (PNA)
