QC ‘shabu tiangge’ raided; one killed, 10 arrested

Police and military operatives raid a suspected “shabu tiangge” at Barangay Culiat, Quezon City, on Friday. PHOTOS BY ERWIN AGUILON/RADYO INQUIRER

Joint operatives of police and military raided early on Friday a suspected “shabu tiangge” that led to the killing of a man and arrest of 10 suspects in Quezon City.

Supt. Danilo Macerin, chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group–National Capital Region, said police and military elements swooped down on five houses converted into a shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) market in Barangay (village) Culiat around 5:10 a.m.

Macerin said police shot and killed one of the suspects, 26-year-old Emar Allahon Asuad, a native of Patikul, Sulu, when he was about to open fire on the operatives.

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Of the 10 arrested suspects now detained at the CIDG office in Camps Crame and Karingal, three were women while seven were men. Two of them were apprehended in the drug den.

The raiding team, however, failed to arrest the operator of the said shabu tiangge.

Joint elements of CIDG NCR, Quezon City Police District, National Capital Region Office, Highway Patrol Group and intelligence officers from the Armed Forces of the Philippines conducted the raid based on six search warrants issued by Judge Reynaldo Alhambra of Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 53.

The police confiscates “video karera” machines, several firearms and other illegal items during the raid.

Subjects of search warrants were a certain Jamil Baja, Ibrahim Nabdul, Saud Kamil Mikalid and Alimad Kausai Sarip for violating Republic Act No. 10591 or the Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulation Act.

A dzIQ Radyo Inquirer 990AM report said one of the houses-turned-shabu market had a makeshift cashier’s window. It also said a waiting area was designated for users waiting for their turn while users on a high were confined in an exclusive area consisting of seven cubicles, operating round-the-clock.

No illegal drugs were found in the possession of the suspects.

But police confiscated Intratec machine pistol, two .45-cal. pistols, a .38- cal. revolver, two baby Armalite and a full-sized Armalite, as well as 300 rounds of assorted ammunition, magazines loaded with live ammunition, illegal drug paraphernalia, “video karera” machines and 14 unregistered motorcycles. With reports by Yuji Gonzales, Erwin Aguilon and John Lester Alos/IDL/RC