Cop, cohort yields P4-M worth shabu in Cotabato City sting

COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Anti-narcotics agents confiscated P4 million worth of shabu from a policeman and an accomplice, entrapped along a busy thoroughfare here on Friday night.

Staff Sgt. Mujeeb Bitayo Sepi and his companion, Farida Alim Alfonso, both yielded peacefully when they sensed that they had sold P4 million worth of shabu to non-uniformed agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and police personnel in a tradeoff along Quezon Avenue here.

In separate initial reports on Saturday, Gil Cesario Castro, director of PDEA-BARMM, and Bangsamoro police director Brig. Gen. Allan Nobleza said that they are both thankful to tipsters who reported the duo’s drug trafficking activities, enabling personnel of the agency and policemen to plot the sting that led to their arrest.

Sepi, who belongs to the municipal police force in nearby Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte, and Alfonso are now locked in the detention facility of PDEA-BARMM here.

Castro said they are to be prosecuted for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 using the shabu seized from them as evidence.