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Monday, April 04, 2005
Authorities eyeing another shabu lab
By Ben O. Tesiorna
* Shabu laboratory being operated by Oriental-looking men outside Davao City
* Mayor raises warning anew for shabu manufacturers to quit the business
AUTHORITIES are monitoring another shabu laboratory run by foreigners and operating outside Davao City, according to Mayor Rodrigo Duterte Sunday.
Though not revealing the location of the suspected shabu laboratory, Duterte said Oriental-looking foreigners are involved in the operation.
"They come here and manufacture illegal drugs as if there are no laws," the mayor said.
For this, Duterte warned the foreigners to stop their illegal activity immediately or suffer the same fate that befell the six Oriental-looking foreigners who died during a raid at a shabu laboratory in Dumoy, Toril last December 31.
He then addressed the local partners of the foreigners to translate his threats to them.
Duterte had earlier said that if he caught anyone operating a shabu laboratory in the city, he would tie them down to the machines and set them on fire. This time, however, the mayor said he is expanding his coverage to include those shabu manufacturers operating elsewhere in the country.
The Dumoy raid was conducted by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 11, the Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Force, and the intelligence operatives of the Police Regional Office.
Police recovered more than 76 kilos of suspected shabu worth more than P152 million in street value.
PDEA 11 director Superintendent Wilkins Villanueva said that police were forced to fire shots at the victims in retaliation to the former's resistance.
Six suspected drug dealers died on their way to the Davao Sanitarium Hospital for treatment, while suspected laboratory owner Alan Sy has not surfaced since then.
The mayor refused to categorically state what happened to Sy, but he has often repeated that he has already accounted for all suspects when he called President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to inform her about the New Year's Eve bust.
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