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BY TIFFANY ANNE TAN
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BACOLOD City – The police in Negros Occidental vowed to strictly monitor courier service packages entering the province.
Suspected shabu worth P3.3 million were seized in Silay City last week. They were contained in a courier service package.
The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office is intensifying security in all entry points, said Senior Superintendent William Señoron, director.
Señoron said they will also collaborate with security agencies involved in courier deliveries.
Two drug suspects were arrested during the operation in Silay City: Jimsel Balboa and Dennis Esmeralda, both 27 years old.
Superintendent Willy Diel, Silay City police chief, said they only recovered the P3.3-million suspected shabu by chance.
Weighing around 331.23 grams, the suspected shabu were placed inside shampoo and lotion bottles contained in an LBC package the suspects were carrying.
Police staged a buy-bust operation against Esmeralda around 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 15 on Rizal Street and spotted the package, consigned to Balboa. The sender was Pocholo Bernabe of Barangay Bayanan, Muntinlupa City.
Suspicious, police told the men to open the package.
That was when they found 18 sachets of suspected shabu: 17 weighed around 19.4 grams each and another weighing 1.43 grams, said Diel.
Señoron said they were looking into LBC’s possible liability.
The confiscated suspected shabu have a market value of around P3.312 million, at P10,000 per gram.
Balboa and Esmeralda were detained at the Silay City police station lockup cell.
Señoron promised they will not let a similar incident, where they were almost outwitted by the drug suspects, happen again.
He also advised courier services to be more cautious of the packages they deliver.
Drug syndicates may use their services for illicit transactions, stressed Señoron./PN
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