Shabu dug in shallow graves?

CAMP FLORENDO, SN. FERNANDO CITY, La Union — Cops have uncovered a new modus operandi of drug dealers in the Ilocos region, digging drugs into graves to escape police.

Ilocos police director Chief Supt. Arturo Lomibao said that a relatively new modus operandi has been uncovered by police operatives when they found out a sachet of shabu dug in a "shallow grave" in Urdaneta City, in Pangasinan this week. A sachet of shabu weighing 129 grams was found by Urdaneta police which was dug near a creek along a Muslim Compound in Doña Trining subdivision, Barangay Camantiles, Urdaneta City.

Police was tipped off that shabu was being kept by drug dealers not anymore in their actual possession but these are being dug into shallow graves and then dug out when buyers contact them.

The police scoured the area tipped-off by an informer and found a sachet of shabu and a digital weighing scale.

Lomibao said this is a new phenomenon insofar as the anti-drug campaign of the government is concerned. Drug dealers have also become creative to skirt away from the law, he said.

This might explain, Lomibao said, why during a raid, police did not find any drugs being kept by a suspected drug dealer in the Ilocos region.