P182-M shabu seized in posh Lakeshore by cops

By Mar T. Supnad

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga — The classic story of drug dealers concealing their operations behind high walls in posh villages unfolds yet again with the arrest of two suspects who yielded P182 million worth of “shabu” at the millionaires’ resort-village known as Lakeshore in Mexico, Pampanga.

Senior Supt. Oscar Albayalde, Police Provincial Office director, who led the buy-bust operation, said the recent arrest of Ding Wenkun, a Chinese, and his errand boy Roel L. Cabag, originally from Cebu, was a major breakthrough in the campaign against illegal drugs in Pampanga.

Albayalde said initial amount of shabu purchased by the raiding team’s poseur buyer was P300,000 and when Cabag emerged from Wenkun’s house for the trade, operatives were signalled to come in.

Upon entering the Wenkun’s house on Narra Street, Woodbrige Subdivision inside the sprawling Lakeshore property, a luggage containing approximately 16.5 kilos of shabu and a box filled with about 20 kilos more were found.

The big haul valued at around P182 million prompted Chief Supt. Raul Petrasanta, Police Regional Office 3 director, to rush to the area and see the big volume of shabu for himself.

“This is possibly a well-organized syndicate since the confiscated shabu is already a finished product,” Albayalde said.