Some 45 kilograms of suspected shabu were seized by anti-narcotics operatives from a Filipino-Chinese businessman and his female companion in a buy-bust operation in Quezon City on Thursday morning.
Quezon City police arrested businessman Gary Go, 54, and Sierralyn Borromeo, 25, when the couple sold five kilos of shabu, or methamphetamine hydrochloride, to an undercover agent.
Police said the two supsects were from Cebu.
Chief Supt. Joel Pagdilao described Go as married, and from Cebu City but residing at Woodland Subdivision in Angeles City.
The woman Sierralyn Cabarrubias Borromeo was descirbed as single, jobless and from Lapu-Lapu City.
The seized drugs have an estimated market value of P225 million.
The transaction and arrest were carried out on the corner of Bulacan Street and West Avenue in barangay Bungad around 6:30 a.m.
When personnel of QCPD Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group, led by Chief Insp. Roberto Razon, searched the trunk of the white SUV the suspects were boarding, they found 40 more kilos of shabu in self-sealing transparent plastic bags.
“Talagang sanay na sanay sila sa pagde-deliver, biruin niyo ganoon karaming shabu ang dala-dala nila sa sasakyan ide-deliver sa Metro Manila. Parang ordinaryo lang sa kanila,” said Chief Superintendent Joel Pagdilao, QCPD director, said in a Radyo Inquirer 990 AM report.
(They seem like they’re really used to delivering drugs because they brought that much shabu to deliver in Metro Manila. It’s like it’s ordinary for them.)
“So far, this is the biggest amount we have confiscated,” Pagdilao added.
Police also confiscated the marked money used in the operation.
Reports said the arrested individuals will be placed under custody at the Quezon city police headquarters in Camp Karingal.
Charges for violating sections of Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 are being prepared against them.
Authorities in Cebu are checking the background of Go.
If proven that Go is from Cebu, there is possibility his operation reached Cebu, said Supt. Romeo Santander, chief of the City Intelligence Branch of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO).
“We can not discount that possibility,” said Santander.
Santander said Go’s name is not in their police watchlist of suspected drug pushers or drug dealers.
Senior Supt. Armando Radoc, officer-in-charge of the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office, said Borromeo’s name is not in their watchlist. /INQUIRER.NET