MANILA, Philippines — More than P35 million worth of suspected crystal meth, locally known as shabu, was discovered packed in an unclaimed bag at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1 in Pasay City on Saturday morning.
The bag was spotted by members of the NAIA Inter-Agency Drug Interdiction Task Group led by Gerald Javier at around 9 a.m, according to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA).
According to PDEA, the bag had a tag with the name of a certain Nazarene Obillo, 26. Obillo arrived in the country on a flight from Hanoi, Vietnam.
The shabu, which weighed 5.16 kilograms, was taken to the PDEA Laboratory Service for examination.
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