PDEA NABS TWO DRUG PUSHERS IN CALOOCAN CITY

Sunday 17th of March 2013
CALOOCAN CITY, March 17 (PIA) -- Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) operatives arrested two notorious pushers of a drug group operating in Caloocan City during the implementation of simultaneous search warrants on March 14, 2013. PDEA Director General Undersecretary Arturo G. Cacdac, Jr. said that the suspects are both members of the Bandiola Drug Group and residents of Phase 8B, Bagong Silang, Caloocan City. Agents of PDEA Regional Office-National Capital Region (PDEA RO-NCR), under Director Wilkins Villanueva served the search warrants in the suspects’ residences in Bagong Silang at around 7 a.m. Some eight pieces of plastic sa...
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