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| Personnel of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency–Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao account the shabu items taken from the possession of slain drug suspect Jaymar Nandang, town councilor of Northern Kabuntalan, Maguindanao following a drug sting operation that led to a shootout on Sunday (Aug. 16, 2020) in Barangay Rosary Heights 11, Cotabato City. (Photo from: PDEA-BARMM) |
[아시아뉴스통신=페이 기자] Anti-narcotics agents are tracking down alleged cohorts of a Maguindanao town councilor killed in a drug buy-bust in this city on Sunday. “We are closely monitoring the movement of several people affiliated to the suspect’s illegal drug activities and we are after them,” Director Juvenal Azurin of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency–Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao said Monday.
Azurin declined to elaborate, citing ongoing operations. PDEA-BARMM operatives shot and killed during an alleged buy-bust operation Jaymar Nandang, a councilor of Northern Kabuntalan, Maguindanao, following a shootout. Azurin said the agents tried to arrest Nandang after an exchange of money and “shabu” items with a poseur-buyer when the suspect resisted arrest.
The suspect was rushed to the hospital after the shootout but was declared dead on arrival by doctors. Seized from the possession of the slain councilor were some 20 grams of shabu with a street value of PHP136,000, a mobile phone, and a .45-caliber pistol. “It took us three years to finally set him up for the entrapment,” Azurin said. Relatives took the remains of the slain councilman from the hospital but refused to speak.
