Cebu City drug busts: Over P1.7M ‘shabu’ seized in one day

Emmariel Ares 12/17/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – In only one day, authorities seized suspected shabu worth  P1,747,600 in two separate drug busts in Cebu City. The Cebu City drug busts startedd on Monday afternoon, December 16, when an anti-illegal drugs…

Cebu City drug bust: Top drug courier caught with P51M ‘shabu’

Emmariel Ares 12/14/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Law enforcers confiscated suspected shabu worth P51 million from a 57-year-old high profile drug suspect during a Cebu City drug bust on Friday, December 13. The arrested suspect was identified as Jonathan Ungria…

Cebu City: Illegal drugs worth over P489M destroyed

Emmariel Ares 11/14/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — More than P489 million worth of illegal drugs that were seized within Central Visayas were destroyed on Thursday, November 14. The confiscated pieces of drug evidence were burned at the thermal facility of…

E-bike driver in Cebu City arrested again for illegal drugs

Emmariel Ares 10/16/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – An e-bike driver from Barangay Sawang Calero in Cebu City was apprehended for the second time during a buy bust operation in the area on Tuesday afternoon, October 15, 2024. The suspect was…

Cebu City lolas nabbed: Poverty, boredom reasons for selling drugs

Paul Lauro 10/11/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — One sold drugs so she could buy her maintenance medicine, the other one sold and used shabu to cure her boredom. These were the reasons why two lolas, a 74-year-old widow and a…

P11.7M ‘shabu’ seized in week-long operations in Central Visayas

Emmariel Ares 10/02/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Relentless police operations in Central Visayas for one week led to the confiscation of suspected shabu worth over P11,000,000. These police operations were conducted across Central Visayas from September 22- 28, 2024. According…

Espenido: Bato’s order for Albuera drug war meant killing suspects

Gabriel Pabico Lalu 08/28/2024

MANILA, Philippines — Police Col. Jovie Espenido, a central figure in the Duterte administration’s drug war, on Wednesday claimed that then-Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Ronald Dela Rosa’s order to rid Albuera, Leyte of illegal drugs meant…

Bohol buy-bust yields P510,000 of ‘shabu’

Emmariel Ares 08/22/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – A 23-year-old man, described as a high-value target, was caught with suspected shabu estimated to be worth P510,000 during a buy-bust operation in Brgy. Bool, Tagbilaran City in Bohol province on Wednesday evening,…

49 more villages in Central Visayas now drug-cleared barangays

Emmariel Ares 08/03/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – A total of 49 more villages in Central Visayas are now drug-cleared barangays as of July 31, 2024, a drug-clearing body revealed. The announcement of the drug-cleared barangays was made by the Regional…

Lapu-Lapu drug bust: 4 suspects nabbed inside drug den

Marielle Surigao 07/19/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Tips from concerned citizens led to the arrest of four suspects inside a drug den in Zone Lato, Barangay Kalawisan, Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu, on Wednesday afternoon, July 17. According to authorities, the Lapu-Lapu…

Barangay councilor from Pinamungajan, Cebu nabbed for drugs

Emmariel Ares 06/21/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — An active barangay councilor of Tutay, Pinamungajan, Cebu landed in jail after he was arrested by virtue of a warrant of arrest for drug charges in Aloguinsan town on Thursday morning, June 20,…

Cebu City shooting: Man attacked due to illegal drugs

Futch Anthony Inso 06/17/2024

CEBU, Philippines — An 18-year-old man was recuperating in a hospital, after he was allegedly shot by his friend for coming up short several times in paying for the illegal drugs the man allegedly bought from his…

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