{"id":172122,"date":"2018-07-19T05:38:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T09:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=172122"},"modified":"2018-07-19T05:38:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T09:38:46","slug":"arrested-cotabato-drug-peddler-yields-p1-7-m-shabu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/19\/arrested-cotabato-drug-peddler-yields-p1-7-m-shabu\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrested Cotabato &#8216;drug peddler&#8217; yields P1.7-M shabu"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_172123\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172123\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mamalangka-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-172123\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mamalangka-5.jpg\" alt=\"SEIZED. The estimated PHP1.7-million worth of the illegal &quot;shabu&quot; drug substance seized from drug suspect Ezrael Mamalangka around 2 p.m. Wednesday (July 18, 2018) along Magallanes Street in Cotabato City. (Photo by City Mayor's Office via PNA)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mamalangka-5.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mamalangka-5-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-172123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SEIZED. The estimated PHP1.7-million worth of the illegal &#8220;shabu&#8221; drug substance seized from drug suspect Ezrael Mamalangka around 2 p.m. Wednesday (July 18, 2018) along Magallanes Street in Cotabato City. (Photo by City Mayor&#8217;s Office via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>COTABATO CITY<\/strong>&#8211;Anti-narcotics operatives arrested Wednesday afternoon a suspected big-time drug peddler and recovered from him an estimated PHP1.7 million worth of methamphetamine hydrochloride or \u201cshabu\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Cynthia Guiani Sayadi lauded Juvenal Azurin, regional director of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-ARMM) for the successful anti-drug operation.<\/p>\n<p>Azurin identified the suspect as Ezrael Mamalangka, 36, of Talayan, Maguindanao, but temporarily residing in Barangay Rosary Heights 10 here.<\/p>\n<p>Seized from Mamalangka were four huge sachets of suspected \u201cshabu\u201d with an estimated street value of PHP1.7 million, a pouch, the suspect\u2019s wallet, mobile phone, and a motorbike.<\/p>\n<p>Mamalangka was arrested at about 2 p.m. after he handed over some of the stuff to a PDEA poseur-buyer during a buy-bust operation along Magallanes Street, this city.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities believed Mamalangka is part of a big-time drug syndicate operating in Maguindanao and nearby provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Guiani-Sayadi has repeatedly warned drug dealers and other lawless elements that the city government will not stop enforcing the laws, even in the dead of night.<\/p>\n<p>The lady mayor regularly leads local police and military authorities in \u201cRonda Patrol,\u201d a nightly campaign against lawless elements, drug pushers and peddlers, including curfew violators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COTABATO CITY&#8211;Anti-narcotics operatives arrested Wednesday afternoon a suspected big-time drug peddler and recovered from him an estimated PHP1.7 million worth &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":172123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[53733,19849,53732],"class_list":["post-172122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-ezrael-mamalangka","tag-mayor-cynthia-guiani-sayadi","tag-php1-7-million","mauthors-edwin-fernandez","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}