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By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Three people, including two minors, are now in police custody after they attempted to sell marijuana from Kalinga to clients in Metro Manila, on Wednesday, June 6, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency said. The suspects were identified as Arden Kenneth Ledesma and the two minors, alias Gerald and alias Jomar. A media report said one of the suspects squealed about the operation to someone, which prompted the authorities to set […]
(Eagle News) — Almost all of the 115 reelectionists who were on the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency’s narco-list won in the recently concluded barangay elections. The figure given by Interior Undersecretary Martin Diño in a radio interview over dzbb on Saturday, May 19, was higher than the 60 officials on the narco-list who won in the same elections, according to PDEA. He said these officials would be closely monitored by the Department of the Interior […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency on Monday, April 30, released the validated list of barangay officials allegedly engaged in illegal drug activities. PDEA Chief Aaron Aquino said the names of 207 individuals in the list was validated by four government agencies. Of the 207, 90 were barangay captains and 117 were barangay kagawad. PDEA said the most number of involved barangay officials was in Region 5, with 70. This, PDEA said, was […]
Narco-list not a “hit list,” PDEA chief assures (Eagle News)—The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency on Monday, April 30, said charges would be filed against barangay officials allegedly engaged in illegal drug activities “in a week or two.” PDEA Chief Aaron Aquino made the statement as he assured the public that the list was not a “hit list.” “We want to be legitimate in our operations, we want our operations to be transparent,” he said. Aquino […]
(Eagle News)–“Not yet.” President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday, April 29, said it was not yet time to release the list containing the names of barangay officials allegedly engaged in illegal drug activities. Earlier, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency director general Aaron Aquino said it was the Palace itself that told him to release the list containing over 200 names this week. “Not yet. It is not time. I have to get back all those who want […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency is slated to release this week the names of over 200 barangay officials who are allegedly engaged in illegal drug activities. In a press conference, PDEA director general Aaron Aquino said it was Malacañang itself that ordered him to release the 211 names. The figure, he said, was a decrease from the 293 names included in the original narco-list of President Rodrigo Duterte. Forty-one […]
(Eagle News) — Isang hinihinalang shabu laboratory ang nadiskubre ng Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) sa Dela Cruz Street, Baranagay Tenejeros sa Malabon nitong Biyernes, Abril 13. Arestado naman ang dalawang katao na kinilalang sina John Ming Shen at ang kaniyang driver na si Lauro Santiago. Ayon sa otoridad, ang nasabing shabu lab ay hinihinalang konektado sa isa pang shabu laboratory na sinalakay din ng PDEA sa Batangas nitong Huwebes, Abril 12, kung saan limang Pilipino […]
Around P5 million worth of shabu seized (Eagle News) — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency have arrested three individuals in a buy-bust operation in a Pasay mall parking lot on Tuesday. Also seized from Aladin Amiril Salilagia, and husband-and-wife Abner and Malina Nano in the operation held at 11:30 a.m. was P5 million worth of shabu. The three–who were the subjects of a surveillance weeks before–are alleged members of the Ameril drug group that operates in […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) has released over P13 million as reward money to its deserving operating units and private informants. The PDEA Special Enforcement Service, PDEA Intelligence and Investigation Service, PDEA Region 3, PDEA Region 12 and PDEA National Capital Region received over P6 million for their successful anti-drug operations. The PDEA SES received the biggest reward of P3.5 million for its discovery and dismantling of a shabu […]
(Eagle News) — Authorities will investigate claims drug lords were using some human rights groups to discredit the government’s war on drugs. “This has been a recent finding. So we will coordinate with our counterparts from (the Philippine National Police), (National Bureau of Investigation) and all other agencies including intelligence agencies kung kailangan,” Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency director Derrick Carreon said in a press conference in Malacanang on Tuesday. According to Carreon, “any damage to […]
(Eagle News) — The National Bureau of Investigation has arrested a woman believed to be part of a group whose members pose as agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency for extortion activities. NBI Deputy Director Ferdinand Lavin said Jai Sunshine Chua was arrested in an operation in Cainta, Rizal, on March 9. Posing as PDEA agents, Chua and her alleged nine cohorts identified as JR Ordonez, Anthony Ordonez, Michael Corpuz, Junjun Patawi, Ryan Bonn Singson […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency on Saturday announced the arrest of two Nigerians who were allegedly members of an African drug cartel operating in Bicol and the Calabarzon area. PDEA Director General Aaron Aquino said Agu Agustin Chukwuebuka and Nkwocha Chimaobi were nabbed after they sold 11 sachets containing 500 grams of what was believed to be shabu to a poseur-buyer in a parking lot of a fast food in Talaba, Bacoor, Cavite. […]
