Saturday, February 19, 2005 (Philippines)

National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Director Reynaldo Wycoco shows to Pampanga Representative Juan Miguel "Mikey" Arroyo, Pampanga Provincial Police Director Leonardo Espina, Councilor Ruperto Dumlao and other officials suspected liquid shabu recovered from a P26 million-house (top photo) in the Hacienda Royale estates, Barangay Baliti, City of San Fernando. (Sun.Star Pampanga/Albert B. Lacanlale) CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- A posh subdivision in this city for some time may have become the lair of a big-time shabu manufacturer. A combined group of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), PNP and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) unearthed a shabu laboratory in a P26 million house-and-lot at the Hacienda Royale subdivision, in Barangay Baliti, here. [full story]