CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY—The regional Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency has destroyed 9.04 kilograms of mostly shabu, or crystal meth, worth more than P61 million at a mortuary here on Monday (May 10).
Most of the drugs were being kept as evidence in court for previous drug cases, according to Benjamin Recites III, PDEA assistant regional director.
Of the total meth volume, 7.95 kilos belonged to the couple Gaudencio and Melodina Parojinog Malingin who were both arrested in 2017.
Melodina was the sister of the late Reynaldo Parojinog, former Ozamiz City mayor, who was killed along with several family members and bodyguards during a police raid on his home in 2017, more than a …
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