Mom, 2 kids held for turning QC home into drug den

A woman and her two children were thrown in jail Tuesday morning after the police raided their Quezon City home, which the family had allegedly turned into a drug den.

Serving a search warrant, members of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) arrested Elvira Manansala, 48; her 20-year-old son Marlon; and her 23-year-old daughter Marjorie at their house on Zambales Street in Barangay San Martin de Porres, Cubao.

A report to Chief Supt. Guillermo Eleazar, QCPD director, said Manansala was on the watch list of suspected drug users and pushers in the area, who earlier surrendered under the government’s “Oplan Tokhang” campaign.

On Jan. 3, a female tipster alerted the QCPD about the suspects’
residence being used as a “one-stop shop” where drug users could buy “shabu” and take the drug.

Around 12:20 a.m., a team from QCPD’s Cubao station entered the house on a search warrant issued by Judge Rosanna Fe Romero-Maglaya of Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 88.

Seized from the raid were 26 sealed sachets of suspected shabu
(crystal meth), eight opened packets of the drug, and several drug paraphernalia.

Meanwhile, a string of QCPD antidrug operations in Barangays Batasan Hills and Payatas on Monday night led to the arrest of four suspects, who yielded a total of 10 sachets of shabu.