‘Shabu’ worth P2.7M recovered from 2 ex-cons in Cebu City drug bust
Map of Cebu City. | File photo
CEBU CITY, Philippines – An electric bike (e-bike) driver and a delivery app rider, who are both ex-convicts, landed back in jail after they were caught with P2.7 million worth of suspected shabu during a buy-bust operation in Cebu City on Thursday, February 1, 2024.
The arrested persons were identified as e-bike driver Rimark Espinosa Canoy, 33, and delivery app rider Oscar Togino Abanes, 22.
Both are residents of Sitio Mansanitas, Barangay Duljo Fatima.
A police report revealed that the two were collared in a buy-bust operation in Sitio Black Cats in Barangay Duljo Fatima at around 9:15 p.m. on Thursday by operatives of the Regional Police Drug Enforcement Unit (RPDEU)-7, under the supervision of the Regional Intelligence Division (RID-7).
Operatives seized 400 grams of suspected shabu worth P2.7 million from Canoy and Abanes.
The police report said that the two men were placed under surveillance for at least a month prior to the conduct of the buy-bust operation.
Contact person at the city jail
According to the police, the two would sell to buyers here and would source their supply of shabu from a contact, who is currently detained at the Cebu City Jail.
Canoy and Abanes were also jailed earlier for a drug-related offense. They were recently released from detention and went back to selling illegal drugs.
In their report, the police said that the two men can dispose a kilo of shabu per week.
The two drug suspects remain at the RPDEU-7 detention facility while law enforcers prepare for the filing of charges for the possession and sales of illegal drugs against them.
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