Mandaluyong woman busted for P1M ‘shabu’

MANILA, Philippines—Undercover agents confiscated more than P1 million worth of methamphetamine hydrochloride, more popularly known as shabu, from a woman in a buy-bust operation last week in Mandaluyong City.

Norma Ebrahim, 38, was caught red-handed selling two grams of shabu to a narcotics agent who had posed as a buyer on Shaw Boulevard Friday afternoon.

Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Arturo Cacdac Jr. said that Ebrahim, a resident of Quiapo, Manila is a suspected “big time” drug peddler.

The operation was carried out around 4 p.m. at the Greenfield District Square on Shaw Boulevard by operatives of the PDEA Calabarzon (Cavite-Laguna-Batangas-Rizal-Quezon) regional office.

After selling a sachet containing two grams of shabu to an undercover narcotics agent, PDEA operatives arrested her and recovered another 400 grams of the substance inside a sachet wrapped in packaging tape.

Cacdac said the seized contraband was worth P1.2 million.

Meanwhile, a man was arrested also on Friday in General Santos City after P1.8 million worth of shabu was found on him.

Ruel Carcilla, 43, was carrying 240 grams of shabu when PDEA operatives arrested him in Barangay Dadiangas West around 7 a.m. Friday.