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PHILIPPINE <\/strong>Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) agents arrested a suspect and seized some P272 million worth of suspected shabu concealed in foil packs labeled as \u201cfreeze-dried durian\u201d in Chinese characters<\/strong> in an anti-narcotics operation in Binangonan, Rizal before midnight Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n PDEA chair Director General Isagani R. Nerez<\/strong> said that around 40 kilograms of the \u201cpoor man\u2019s cocaine\u201d were confiscated during the buy-bust operation at Rizal Cement Village in Bgy. Pantok in Binangonan municipality.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Arrested was a \u201chigh-value target\u201d identified as alias \u201cRonald.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to Nerez, undercover officers from the PDEA Intelligence Service, National Capital Region Office and Regional Office 4-A conducted the operation, with the support of the Philippine National Police Drug Enforcement Group.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Seized during the operation were 40 foil packs colored black gold each containing a kilo of the prohibited drugs.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The seized items were sent to the PDEA Laboratory Service for further examination and safekeeping.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The arrested suspect is now being held at the PDEA national headquarters in Quezon City facing non-bailable charges for sale and possession of prohibited drugs under Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The PDEA chief said follow-up operations are underway to identify and arrest the main source of the confiscated illegal drugs.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nerez ommended the PDEA and PNP-DEG operatives involved in the successful \u201chigh-impact operation,” which he described as a major blow to the supply chain of illegal drugs in the streets.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PHILIPPINE Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) agents arrested a suspect and seized some P272 million worth of suspected shabu concealed in foil packs labeled as “freeze-dried<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/shabu-in-rizal.png",415,260,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/shabu-in-rizal-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/shabu-in-rizal-300x188.png",300,188,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/shabu-in-rizal.png",415,260,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/shabu-in-rizal.png",415,260,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/shabu-in-rizal.png",415,260,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/shabu-in-rizal.png",415,260,false],"kreeti-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/shabu-in-rizal.png",415,260,false],"kreeti-featured":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/shabu-in-rizal.png",415,260,false],"kreeti-medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/shabu-in-rizal.png",415,260,false],"kreeti-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/shabu-in-rizal-350x260.png",350,260,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Provincial<\/a>","tag_info":"Provincial","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12598,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions\/12598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}