‘Shabu’ worth over P300k seized from ex-cop-turned-drug pusher

LEGAZPI CITY — Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Bicol said Thursday that anti-narcotics operatives seized P340,000 worth of “shabu” (crystal meth) from the former policeman arrested in a drug sting on Wednesday afternoon in Daraga town in Albay province.

Zandro Oscillada, 47, a former policeman with the rank of Police Officer 1 (currently Patrolman) when he went on absence without leave (AWOL) in 2002, was arrested around 4:45 p.m. in Barangay San Roque while selling shabu to an undercover agent of PDEA, Christian Frivaldo, PDEA acting regional director, said in a report.

Confiscated from the suspect were 12 heat-sealed plastic containing shabu weighing 50 grams.

Capt. Dexter Panganiban, Albay police spokesperson, in an interview, said Oscillada was a policeman assigned in Sorsogon province.

After he went on AWOL in 2002, Oscillada was dismissed from the service in 2005./lzb