PDEA intensifies drive;2 drug pushers nabbed

By Carlito C. Dar

BAGUIO CITY -- The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency has intensified its campaign against illegal drugs here and Benguet province.

For the first week of May, two buy-bust operations led to the arrest of two drug pushers and a raid of a shabu ‘tiangge’.

According to a report by PDEA-CAR information officer EmelyFama, a buy-bust operation last May 5 led to the arrest of Warren Byrd Canisi, a 39 years old van driver  alongPurok 7 Asin Road, Baguio City. 

Canisi’sarrest  subsequently led to the raid of a shabu “tiangge” in barangay Asin,  wherein 23 sachets of meth, various paraphernalia for packaging and use of shabu, drug money and records of drug transactions were seized.

Canisi reportedly utilized his unit for the repackaging, selling and using of meth; and repackaging is actually a phase of the manufacturing process of dangerous drugs

The repackaged shabu confiscated from Canisi had an estimated overall weight of 3.34 grams, with street cost of around P40,000, Fama reported.

Canisi was charged last May 7 before the Office of the City Prosecutor in Baguio illegal drugs.

Three days earlier, , PDEA agents in coordination with La Trinidad, Benguet police arrested CamlonAmerol, 37, of  Barangay Ambiong of the town in another buy-bust operation.

Amerol traded 0.13 gram of shabu, worth 1,500 to a PDEA undercover agent during the buy-bust operation.

According to Fama, Amerol was a suspected supplier of sabu to jeepney/taxi drivers and automotive repair shop workers.

He was also a suspected close aide of a newly identified shabu distributor in Cordillera.

A case for illegal drugs was also filed against Amerol before the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor in La Trinidad, Benguet last May 3.

Two other separate buy-bust operations of PDEA agents last April 19 also led to the arrest and filing of charges against three other suspected drug users/pushers operating in Baguio City.