COTABATO CITY — Anti-narcotics agents confiscated P13 million worth of crystal meth (shabu) from a dealer entrapped with the help of local officials in Barangay Bangolo in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur on Sunday.

The 21-year-old male suspect is now in the custody of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-BARMM).

Gil Cesario P. Castro, director of PDEA-BARMM, told reporters on Monday, that the suspect was immediately detained by their agents and personnel of different police units under the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region after he sold two kilos of shabu, costing P13 million, during a tradeoff in Barangay Bangolo in Marawi City.

Mr. Castro said the Marawi City police force, Lanao del Sur Gov. Mamintal A. Adiong, Jr., the Lanao del Sur Provincial Police Office and the Army’s 103rd Infantry Brigade supported the entrapment operation that resulted in his arrest.

Mr. Castro said they are to prosecute the suspect for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 using the P13 million worth of shabu confiscated from him as evidence.

He said they are grateful to Maranao political and traditional leaders for providing them information pertaining to the suspect’s shabu peddling activities, enabling them to entrap him promptly. — John Felix M. Unson