PDEA agents arrest four shabu pushers

BAGUIO CITY -- A previously arrested and drug-listed shabu pusher, a close relative of a notorious and suspected operator of a drug den raided recently, and two others were recently arrested here by anti-drug agents in three separate operations.

Zanny Ryan Lingbaoan Quiroz was nabbed in a buy-bust operation by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency – Cordillera at about 11:30 p.m. on Oct. 5 at Pinsao Pilot Project.

Two sachets of shabu weighing 0.31 grams valued at PP3,500 and numerous shabu paraphernalia were seized from Quiroz.

Quiroz, 32, single, a holder of a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering, jobless, resident of No. 43 Lower QM, Baguio City, had been included in the list of drug personalities in the region.

He was arrested by PDEA anti-narcotic operatives on June 7, 2008 at Palma-Urbano, Baguio City for illegal possession and use of dangerous drugs.

But eleven days after, the charges against him were dismissed.

Similarly, Mark Joey Leaño Cabiles, 22, single, college undergraduate, jobless, resident of No. 61 Bayan Park Village, here and Raymund Agloro Tamo alias “Timong”, 41, single, high school undergraduate, jobless, resident of No. 57 also of Bayan Park were apprehended in an earlier buy-bust operation, also in the area at about 8 p.m. on Oct. 5, by PDEA agents.

They were nabbed with four sachets of shabu valued at P1,000.

A PDEA press release said Mark Joey is closely related to Brendon Cabiles, the alleged operator of the drug den here at Engineer’s Hill who was arrested by members of the Regional Anti-illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group, Police Regional Office last September 8, where they found shabu sachets and paraphernalia, and guns and bullets.

Meanwhile, an anonymous phone caller earlier reportedly identified Tamo, also as an operator of another drug den in Bayan Park Village.

Meanwhile, Ken Dela Cruz Jadormio, 29, single, college undergraduate, jobless, resident of No. 06 Bermuda Hills Subdivision was apprehended in a subsequent buy-bust operation by PDEA officers at around 2 a.m. on Oct. 6 at Upper Quezon Hill, Baguio City.

Two shabu sachets containing 0.09 grams of the drug worth P1000 and drug paraphernalia were likewise confiscated from Jadormio.