Woman yields P240K ‘shabu’ in Digos 

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DIGOS CITY–Police have arrested a woman suspected to be a big-time drug trafficker in this city and seized frome her around P240,000 worth of suspected shabu (crystal meth) in a buy-bust operation on Friday night.

Police Captain Deozar Almasa, city police director, said they initially arrested suspect Cristina Durano, 43, in an entrapment operation and later on applied for a search warrant for her place to check for other possible drug supply.

Several packs of suspected shabu were recovered when they implemented a search warrant at Durano’s house located at Purok Gemelina, Aurora extension, Barangay San Miguel here at around 11:50 p.m.

The raiding team seized three big packs, two medium-sized sachets, and 10 pieces of small sachets containing white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu; and drug paraphernalia. The stash had a combined value of P240,000, he said.

Digos City Mayor Joseph Peñas lauded the local police for their accomplishments in the war against illegal drugs.

Peñas urged policemen to double the intelligence monitoring as the elections draw near because some rogue politicians might use drug money to buy votes in the midterm elections. /jpv