Nigerian yields 1.5 kilos of shabu in Laguna drug raid | Inquirer News

Nigerian yields 1.5 kilos of shabu in Laguna drug raid

By: - Correspondent / @dtmallarijrINQ
/ 03:27 PM March 19, 2014

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LUCENA CITY, Quezon–Police in San Pablo City raided the house of a Nigerian national Wednesday and discovered 1.5 kilos of methamphetamine hydrochloride or “shabu,” a police official said.

Supt. Ericson Dilag, San Pablo police chief, said policemen swooped down at noon on the residence of Alphonce Alla y Koussi, 38, in Barangay Santo Anghel and discovered the prohibited drug buried at the back of the house.

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“We found most of the drug buried and covered with a concrete slab at the back of his house,” Dilag said in a phone interview.

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A further search yielded an estimated 20 grams of shabu inside the house which, the police reported the suspect as saying, was left over from a transaction Tuesday evening.

The raid also yielded an unlicensed .38-caliber revolver.

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Dilag declined to put a value on the seized illegal drug.

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The raid was carried out on the strength of a search warrant issued by Judge Agripino Morga of the Regional Trial Court in San Pablo City.

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Dilag said the suspect was identified through his passport.

The Nigerian, married to a Filipina, has long been a resident of the place.

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“We’ve long been monitoring the activities of the suspect,” Dilag said.

The wife of the suspect, who remained unidentified, was not brought to the police station, Dilag said.

“We’re still investigating her role in the illegal business of her spouse,” he said.

Dilag said the police was focusing its investigation on the source of the shabu.

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