Zamboanga police seize PHP20M worth of shabu, arrest high-value suspect

Zamboanga City authorities seized PHP20.4 million worth of shabu and arrested a high-value individual suspect named Nelson Lamon on Sunday.

Col. Diomarie Albarico, chief of the police's Drug Enforcement Group Special Operation Unit, reported that Lamon was apprehended around 12:15 a.m. in an entrapment operation along Gen. Vicente Alvarez Street.

During the arrest, Lamon received an ecological bag containing boodle money as payment for suspected shabu he handed to an undercover officer.

Three plastic packs containing three kilos of suspected shabu and a mobile phone were seized from Lamon.

The suspect is being held at Zamboanga City Police Station 11 pending charges under the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

Brig. Gen. Roel C. Rodolfo, director of Police Regional Office-9 (PRO-9), said the entrapment operation was conducted with the help of confidential informants aware of Lamon's large-scale shabu peddling activities.