Methamphetamine hydrochloride, more commonly known as shabu, worth eight hundred and fifty thousand pesos was confiscated by the Philippine National Police Drug Enforcement Group (PDEG) in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Napindan, Taguig City, on the afternoon of December 9.

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The shabu, weighing 125 grams, was seized from a 47-year-old man named Ellery Natividad Sumulong.

A PDEG agent, posing as a buyer of the illicit drug, handed over a marked P1,000 note to Sumulong.

Upon receiving the money, Sumulong was immediately arrested by PDEG personnel and found in possession of the shabu, the marked money used in the buy-bust operation, a white envelope, a glass tube, a digital weighing scale, a piece of rolled up aluminum foil, a lighter, and a cellphone.

The suspect and the confiscated evidence have been brought to the PDEG Special Operations Unit - National Capital Region office in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig.

(Photo by PDEG)