Philippines seizes more than half ton of suspected meth, arrests 6
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Operatives of the National Bureau of Investigation tagged suspected methamphetamine, locally known as Shabu, weighing more or less 500 kilos, which was seized from two still-unidentified Chinese nationals at their home in San Juan, east of Manila, on Friday.
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Two suspects sat beside the equipment allegedly used to manufacture methamphetamine, locally known as Shabu, that was seized inside a house in San Juan, east of Manila, on Friday.
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Members of the National Bureau of Investigation looked at laboratory materials used to manufacture methamphetamine, locally known as Shabu, that were seized from a truck that was parked inside a house of suspects in San Juan, east of Manila, on Friday.
MANILA >> Philippine authorities seized more than half a metric ton of suspected methamphetamine Friday in suburban Manila and arrested six people in what could be one of the largest drug seizures under President Rodrigo Duterte.
National Bureau of Investigation agents initially seized about 220 pounds of the substance, locally known as shabu, in six bags and arrested four Filipinos in a car in the upscale Greenhills residential district, metropolitan Manila police spokeswoman Kimberly Molitas said.
Almost simultaneously, other agents raided a nearby house and found about 1,100 pounds of meth and arrested two suspects believed to be Chinese. An initial estimate placed the street value of the suspected meth at more than $60 million.
SWAT and police teams surrounded the house, which was near a main road and a shopping center, while agents examined the bags of drugs, along with drug-making equipment, found in the house and a parked truck.
Officials said the drugs may have been manufactured elsewhere and stored in the house for distribution. The raids were conducted by the NBI backed by other police.
Duterte has been waging a brutal crackdown against illegal drugs since he took office in June. More than 6,000 suspected drug users and dealers have been killed, alarming U.S. and U.N. officials and human rights advocates.
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More than 2,000 of the slain suspects died in purported gunbattles with the police, including a detained town mayor, who was said to have hidden a gun and illegal drugs in his cell and reportedly chose to shoot it out with policemen in a clash last month that killed him and another inmate in a central Philippine jail.
The NBI, Manila’s counterpart of the FBI, said in an investigation that the mayor was killed in a rubout by the policemen, who raided the jail, but Duterte backed the officers and said he believed their claim that the mayor died in a firefight despite the finding.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein asked Philippine authorities Tuesday to investigate Duterte for murder after he claimed to have killed people in the past and also to examine the “appalling epidemic of extra-judicial killings” committed during his anti-drug crackdown.
Duterte angrily responded to Zeid’s call with an expletives-laden outburst Thursday, saying the U.N. human rights chief has no right to order around a government helping fund the world body.
“You son of a bitch I’m paying your salary,” Duterte said. “You idiot, you don’t tell me what to do.”
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To the guillotine and swift justice for those drug dealers. Duterte has the right idea and wish we could emulate his actions. No ACLU there.
ditto
IRT Butinski, agree with your post, and add the “users”, who become dealers.
Exactly.
the north shore of oahu could use some batu raids on the sixties surfing elite who control those seven miles for drug sales then launder the ill gotten gains and are treated like pillars of society by the politicians they fund the election campaigns of. at least two unsolved murders too.
Oh boy, you guys going get it from Duterte.
Crystal meth can put a negative lifelong health effects: cardiomyopathy where the heart pumping capability is reduced to the point that a heart transplant is the only way to prolong life, iced induced schizophrenia is another one that is irreversible. Poor dentition is another costly effect of ice use. Then you have crime rate increase as ice users need to get their fix as they are unable to keep a steady income, they ended up resorting criminal activities to feed their addiction. We need to eradicate ice or we are in deep do-do.
agree..scary drug
Agree! It’s more prevalent in Hawaii than people realize yet it doesn’t make the headlines that it should.
Guess Duterte is going back on his promise to God after his vision that God visited him and instructed him to stop swearing. But Duterte is just another drug addict only abusing a prescription drug.
Today he’s purging drug dealers and users. Tomorrow it will be some other group that offends him, probably LGBT, prostitutes or some other social outcast group.
At least he’s trying to do what ever it takes to get rid of the drugs & dealers. You want to see the Philippines become just like MEXICO?
Put the six drug dealer “to sleep”.
“U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein asked Philippine authorities Tuesday to investigate Duterte…”
Another muslim in the UN.
He should be spending time eradicating ISIS and muslim terrorists.