Video of girl sniffing shabu triggers arrest of 34 in 3 QC drug dens

Mary Rose Noscal hides her face after being caught with sachets of shabu in her Quezon City home during a raid by QC police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, on Sept. 1, 2016 (Photo by MARICAR BRIZUELA / INQUIRER)

MANILA — Thirty-four drug pushing suspects were arrested in a joint operation of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Thursday afternoon in Barangay Pasong Tamo.

The raid in three drug dens along McArthur Avenue in Veteran’s Villages was conducted after a search warrant was issued by a Quezon City court against three drug targets identified as Michael Balber, Erickson Balleros and Mary Rose Noscal.

PDEA operatives said the search warrrant was issued after a surveillance video was presented by members of their narcotics groups. Part of the footage showed Noscal sniffing shabu inside her house in Veteran’s Village.

She was arrested inside her residence with more than 10 sachets of shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) and drug paraphernalia. The police also said drug users purchased shabu at her house and those of the two other targets.

After buying their supply, they then proceeded to a separate house in the area where they sniffed the illegal drug. Along with the three suspects, 31 others were arrested in the operation after they were discovered inside the drug dens in Barangay Pasong Tamo.

QCPD Chief Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar said some of those arrested admitted that they were shabu users.

The arrested individuals were taken into custody by PDEA. They will undergo medical examination and drug tests.  SFM

Several of the 34 drug suspects nabbed by the Quezon City Police District and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, sit on the ground, waiting to be transferred to the city jail on Sept. 1, 2016. The cops and the PDEA seized sachets of shabu and drug paraphernalia during raids of three “drug dens” in Barangay Pasong Tamo. (Photo by Maricar Brizuela / INQUIRER)