Rizal shabu lab operators identified

CAMP VICENTE LIM , Philippines  –  Police have identified the owners of a shabu laboratory they dismantled in Cainta, Rizal on Tuesday night.

Anson Tan, a Chinese citizen, and Joshua Uy, a Korean, rented the house at the Vista Verde subdivision in Barangay Isidro where the laboratory was found, Senior Superintendent Randy Peralta, Rizal police director, said yesterday.

Peralta said they are still checking the background of the suspects, who remain at large.  He said the two men left the house last month.

 “We are conducting an investigation to determine the other individuals or criminal gang involved in the manufacture of shabu in the province,” he said.

Police are preparing charges against the suspects even as a team was formed to hunt for them.

Peralta said the laboratory could produce up to 50 kilos or around P250 million worth of shabu a week.

29 nabbed

 Meanwhile, 29 drug suspects were arrested in operations in Rizal, Laguna and Bukidnon in the past two days.

Five were arrested in a sting in Barangay Guitnang Bayan in San Mateo yesterday. Police said the suspects yielded three sachets of shabu, drug paraphernalia, P2,050 in cash and two mobile phones. Four others were nabbed for sniffing shabu in a shanty also in Barangay Guitnang Bayan.

Fourteen were nabbed after selling shabu to undercover agents in Barangays Pansol, Bucal and Parian in Calamba City and Sta. Monica in San Pablo City.

At least 32. 06 grams of shabu, drug paraphernalia and guns were reportedly recovered from the suspects.

In Bukidnon, Johnny Gumolong, a manager of a lending firm, and five others were arrested in Barangays Maila in Valencia City and Casisang in Malaybalay City. They yielded more than 30 grams of shabu with an estimated street value of P150,000, police said. – With Emmanuel Tupas, Non Alquitran