Zamboanga del Sur village official Abdul Mama Musa aka ‘Dol’ (wearing green shirt) looks on as authorities take inventory of their haul of suspected meth after a buy-bust operation on Friday afternoon. Photo from PNP-RDEU-IX
PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur — A 55-year-old village official in Salauagan of Dimataling town in Zamboanga del Sur was nabbed by authorities in a buy-bust operation on Friday afternoon.
Police Capt. Dominic Dalena of the Regional Drug Enforcement Unit-IX identified the village official as Abdul Mama Musa aka “Dol.”
Dalena revealed that Musa was listed as a “high-value individual” on the agency’s top priority targets for illegal drugs at the regional level.
The operatives recovered 13 small sachets of a substance suspected to be crystal meth with an estimated P15,000 market value, buy-bust money, and other personal items.
The suspect is temporarily detained at the Dimataling municipal police station’s lock-up cell while charges for violation of Republic Act No. 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 are being prepared against him.
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