More ‘shabu’ found in Subic

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT: The government’s antismuggling chief, Antonio Villar, over the weekend said they had found three more bags of shabu (metham-phetamine hydrochloride) valued at around P6 million a kilo at Subic Bay Freeport. He estimated that the haul could fetch three times more in the illegal-drugs market.

With the recent find, the total weight shabu discovered here rose to about 744 kilos valued at least P15 billion.

According to Armand Arreza, the administrator of Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, the three bags were seen tied to an anchor around 8:30 a.m. on Saturday.

“This is apparently part of the same shipment that we seized last week,” Arreza told local media. He pointed out that the shabu found had the same packaging as that of the earlier haul confiscated from suspected drug runner Anton Ang.

He turned over the contraband to the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group office in the freeport.

Two Taiwanese fishing vessels faced confiscation after they were abandoned by their crew. Another Taiwanese boat, F/B Shun Fa Xing, was suspected to have carried last week’s shipment. Its crew also abandoned it.

Villar said the captain of F/B Shun Fa Xing identified as Jou Jonq Rong, according to the Taiwanese government, was also facing several charges in Taiwan.
--Anthony Bayarong - Manila Times

Si SBMA Administrator Armand Arreza habang ipinapakita sa media ang 3 bag na naglalaman ng 33 kilos ng Shabu at nagkakahalaga ng P198 Million. Si Teng Tolentino na hepe ng SBMA Law Enforcement ang naka dilaw na polo. Photo by Belen Figueras