Pubdate: 24 Jul 2004 Source: People's Journal (Philippines) Copyright: 2004 People's Journal Contact: http://www.journal.com.ph/contactus.asp Website: http://www.journal.com.ph/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3381 Author: James G. Aquino Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/meth.htm (Methamphetamine) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topics/shabu (Shabu) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topics/PDEA (Philippines Drug Enforcement Agency) 2 HELD FOR DRUGS IN PANGASINAN SISON, Pangasinan -- Two suspected female members of a notorious drug ring based in Metro Manila were busted early yesterday morning by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) provincial office in Barangay Alac here. Senior Supt. Antonio Valle, Jr., PDEA regional director, said Hadji Aliya Capal y Papandayan, 44, and Farida Papandayan y Adoma alias Farida, both of Zone 3, Bantay, Ilocos Sur, were arrested while selling seven sachets of shabu to a PDEA poseur buyer in a bus terminal. Valle said the suspects were arrested by the operatives led by Chief Insp. Christopher N. Abrahano, Pangasinan PDEA provincial director, at 12:30 a.m. Friday inside Rick's Bus terminal on MacArthur Higway in Barangay Alac. Abrahano said before the suspects' arrest, they received a tip from an informant that the two suspects on board a Laoag City-bound Farinas bus were to deliver shabu in Pangasinan and Tarlac. Abrahano immediately led a team to locate the bus. With bundles of cut newspapers resembling P28,000 in cash, the PDEA agents proceeded to the bus terminal. As the suspects negotiated with undercover agents, one of the suspects passed the seven plastic sachets of shabu weighing about 16 grams worth P64,000 to the agent. After handing her the boodle money, the PDEA agents quickly arrested and detained the two at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Urdaneta City. The provincial prosecutors office in Urdaneta City has recommended no bail for the suspects' temporary liberty. Valle said the suspects had been under surveillance for the past three months. Meanwhile, the husbands of the two suspects onboard a green Revo (WFT-439) appeared yesterday afternoon at the PDEA office for a possible out-of-court settlement of their wives' cases but Abrahano told them their case have been filed in a court in Urdaneta City. The suspects' husbands denied that their wives were engaged in drug selling, but rather in buy and sell of used clothes from China. - --- MAP posted-by: Thunder