Mother of 5 caught with P680K suspected shabu

By: Benjie B. Talisic March 31,2019 - 09:57 PM

Richelle Betache, 31, covers her face as police from the Drug Enforcement Group-Visayas present her with the 100 grams of shabu caught in her possession in a drug bust in Barangay Sambag I, Cebu City on Sunday night, March 31, 2019. |CDND Photo/Benjie Talisic

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A mother of five, the youngest of whom is only nine-months-old, landed in a police detention cell after she was caught with about a hundred grams of suspected shabu valued at about P680,000 on Sunday, March 31, 2019. Ritchell Betache, 31, was handcuffed after she sold the alleged illicit drug to a police agent posing as buyer in a buy bust operation just outside of the Cebu South Bus Terminal in Barangay Sambag I, Cebu City. Betache, speaking to CDN Digital, claimed it was her first time to deal in shabu, saying she was only promised a P1,000 fee for delivering the drugs to the buyer. According to Betache, she was more worried about what would happen to her baby since she was breastfeeding the child. Her four other children also had no food to eat, she claimed. But Betache, a resident of Sitio Cahipa, Barangay Hipodromo, Cebu City, had been under surveillance for some time after drug pushers previously arrested by the police pointed to her as their source of shabu, according to Police Lieutenant Colonel Glenn Mayam, chief of the Drug Enforcement Group (DEG) Visayas (Special Operations Unit 5) that conducted the drug bust. Mayam said Betache is the live-in partner of a Barangay Carreta, Cebu City resident who is now in jail in Mandaue City for drug dealing charges. /elb

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