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John Unson - Philstar.com
February 11, 2026 | 7:55pm
The four shabu peddlers entrapped in General Santos City by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement 12 and their two accomplices who fell in a sting four days before in Malungon, Sarangani are now awaiting prosecution in court.
Philstar.com / John Unson
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — The multi-sector Regional Peace and Order Council 12 lauded on Wednesday, February 11, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency 12 for having neutralized, via separate operations, two connected drug rings linked to remaining members of the now defunct Dawlah Islamiya terror group.
Citing a report from PDEA 12, Gov. Reynaldo Tamayo Jr., presiding chairperson of the RPOC 12, said on Wednesday that anti-narcotics agents first arrested in an entrapment operation on Thursday last week two shabu peddlers, one of them a woman, in Sitio Dalangdang in Barangay Nagpan in Malungon, Sarangani.
Officials of intelligence units of the Army’s 10th Infantry Division and the Police Regional Office 12 said three companions in Malungon of the arrested duo immediately relocated somewhere outside of the municipality after learning about their having been entrapped by PDEA 12 agents with the help of their friends and relatives aware of their illegal activities.
In a subsequent operation on Monday, four accomplices of the two suspects entrapped in Malungon with the help of municipal officials were arrested by PDEA 12 agents and operatives from different units of the PRO 12 after selling them shabu in Purok Maunlad in Barangay Apopong in General Santos City.
The four suspects, two of them women, are from Datu Salibo town in Maguindanao del Sur, one of the five provinces in the Bangsamoro region.
Local executives in Maguindanao del Sur overtly supporting the government’s anti-narcotics campaign have relayed to PDEA 12 officials and to Tamayo that all four suspects have links with remnants of the now non-functional Dawlah Islamiya, who occasionally supplied them with dried marijuana leaves that they peddled clandestinely in General Santos City and in nearby towns in South Cotabato.
Charlene Magdurulang, regional director of the PDEA 12, told reporters on Wednesday that their agents have confiscated a total of P380,800 worth of shabu during both operations, planned with the help of officials of PRO 12 and members of the Tamayo-led RPOC 12.
Tamayo, now in his last term as governor of South Cotabato, told reporters on Wednesday that he is grateful to the confidential tipsters, among them vigilant Moro datus in Maguindanao del Sur and leaders of the Moro communities in his province, for reporting to PDEA 12 the shabu peddling activities of the six suspects who fell in two separate operations within just four days.
“Public support for the anti-narcotics operations of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Philippine National Police in all regions in the country is so important. We in the Regional Peace and Order Council 12 are supporting both law-enforcement organizations extensively,” Tamayo said.
Magdurulang said they have separately charged with violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 the two shabu peddlers who fell in an entrapment operation in Malungon and their four accomplices from Maguindanao del Sur who were arrested during a trade-off in General City four days later.
