Pubdate: Fri, 11 Feb 2005
Source: Visayan Daily Star (Philippines)
Copyright: 2005 Visayan Daily Star
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Author: GPB
Cited: Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency http://www.pdea.gov.ph
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COPS WARN VS. FAKE SHABU

Beware of fake shabu, it could be deadly.

The warning was made yesterday by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency 
after the arrest of a civilian agent of the Intelligence Service of the 
Armed Forces of the Philippines in a buy-bust operation in Bacolod City.

Inspector Joemarie Occeno, PDEA provincial officer, yesterday identified 
the arrested ISAFP agent as Edgar Agravante Medel, a resident of Brgy. 8, 
Bacolod City.

Occeno said the arrest of Medel at Purok Amor, Brgy. Villamonte, Bacolod 
City, yesterday yielded two sachets of suspected shabu, a sachet containing 
salt, P200 in marked money and an ISAFP identification card bearing the 
name of the arrested suspect and signed by Maj. Saturnino Obsioma.

PDEA investigations showed that drug pushers are selling fake shabu in 
Negros Occidental, due to scarcity of its supply. A gram of shabu costs 
P3,000 now, the PDEA said.
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