Bilibid inmate tagged in P68-M ‘shabu’ delivery

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) announced on Thursday that it had intercepted a shipment of 10 kilograms of “shabu” (crystal meth) worth P68 million and arrested two suspected drug couriers involved in the delivery.

NBI Mimaropa regional director Rommel Vallejo said they received information that a certain “Mr. Kim,” an inmate from New Bilibid Prison, was moving 10 packs of shabu from Pasay to Bacoor, Cavite province on Monday evening.

The items were to be delivered to an unidentified person. The NBI learned the location of the shipment, what time it would arrive and the model of the car transporting it.

Operatives of the NBI arrested the suspected drug couriers, Reynaldo Moral Cordero and Irene Ilaya Biazon, after 10 packs of shabu were recovered from their car. The driver, however, managed to elude arrest.

The shabu was packed inside gold bags labeled “Chinese teabags” and hidden in the spare tire of the suspects’ car.

“There is no physical movement of goods going in and out of Bilibid. It could be that the order just came from there,” NBI deputy director Ferdinand Lavin told reporters.