Ma nabbed for selling ‘shabu’

MAASIN CITY, Leyte — Authorities here have arrested a 47-year-old mother of five for allegedly selling methamphetamine hydrochloride, more popularly known as “shabu.”

Maasin police chief Supt. Hector Enage said Rosita Magallanes Aguilar was arrested in a buy-bust operation by Maasin City policemen, the Provincial Public Safety Command and the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group at an apartment in barangay Asuncion at 1 a.m. Thursday.

A police asset posing as buyer bought shabu from Aguilar, paying her with three marked P500 bills.

The police confiscated from Aguilar two sachets containing the suspected shabu, with an estimated street value of P14,000, and P6,000 cash, including the three marked P500 bills.

While the policemen’s attention was on the seized items, Aguilar who was not handcuffed escaped from third floor apartment unit and ran toward the Canturing River that was behind the building.

But the suspect was captured less than an hour later in a dark area near the river bank where she hid.

Enage said the police had placed Aguilar, who is from Esperanza, Agusan del Sur, under surveillance for three weeks before her arrest.  INQUIRER