MANILA: The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency arrested a court employee, and revenue officer and his wife in separate buy-bust operations in this city on Thursday night.
Joseph Ladip, director of PDEA 9, identified the suspects as Al-Rashid Wadja Ibba, 50, a legal researcher of a municipal trial court in this city; Bensaudi Paragas Jajurie, 58, a revenue officer of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) district office here, and his wife Frexa Halil Jajurie, 45, all residents of this city.
Ladip said Ibba was arrested when he delivered and sold a heat-sealed transparent plastic sachet containing suspected shabu to an undercover agent in exchange for P500 pesos in Barangay Sta. Maria. He said the PDEA team also recovered two heat-sealed plastic sachets with suspected shabu and the marked money used in the bust.
They also recovered a red wallet with several identification cards, P5,000 and a motorcycle. Ladip said the suspected shabu weighs 15 grams and is worth around P31,500 on the street.
Jajurie and his wife were arrested more than two hours later at Barangay Putik in another buy-bust operation. Ladip said the couple was arrested after selling a sachet of suspected shabu for P500 to a PDEA agent in a subdivision in Barangay Putik.
He said agents later also confiscated two heat-sealed plastic sachets with shabu, the buy-bust money, a pouch, weighing scale, and drug paraphernalia. Ladip said the confiscated suspected shabu weighed two grams with an estimated market value of P6,000. The suspects will be charged with violations of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
