THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) agents nabbed Chinese national in a buy bust operation and confiscated ₱217,642,000.00 worth of Methamphetamine hydrochloride, or shabu, and ecstasy tablets in Bacoor City, Cavite.
PDEA Director General Undersecretary Isagani R. Nerez said that one suspect identified as alias “Li”, 35 years old, a male Chinese national and resident of Mandaluyong City, was arrested during the operation.
On March 21, 2025 at around 6:14 in the morning, combined elements of PDEA Special Enforcement Service (SES); PDEA Regional Office IV-A, Cavite Provincial Office; and the Philippine National Police Maritime Police Station and Bacoor City Police Station, arrested “Li” after he sold one transparent self-sealing plastic bag containing suspected shabu, weighing approximately one kilogram worth ₱6,800,000.00 to a poseur-buyer in the parking lot of popular fast food chain restaurant along Bacoor Boulevard, Bacoor City, Cavite.
Seized also in the suspect’s possession were 31 more plastic bags containing suspected shabu, weighing more or less 31 kilograms, worth ₱210,800,000.00; four plastic sachets containing 35 pieces of red-colored ecstasy tablets worth ₱42,000.00; one Honda City and other personal belongings.
Undersecretary Nerez said that the total estimated weight of shabu seized during the operation is more or less 32 kilograms, with a standard value of ₱217,600.000.00.
Alias “Li” will be facing charges for violation of Section 5 (Sale of Illegal Drugs) and Section 11 (Possession of Illegal Drugs), Article II of Republic Act 9165, or The Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
“The arrested Chinese national has been under our tight watch for quite some time now under COPLAN: “Mafioso”. He is capable of distributing voluminous amounts of illegal drugs, and is now behind bars,” the PDEA chief said.
