{"id":12201,"date":"2025-03-03T02:49:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T18:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=12201"},"modified":"2025-03-03T02:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T18:49:30","slug":"pastor-among-3-nigerian-nationals-arrested-in-cavite-drug-buy-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/pastor-among-3-nigerian-nationals-arrested-in-cavite-drug-buy-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;PASTOR&#8217; AMONG 3 NIGERIAN NATIONALS ARRESTED IN CAVITE DRUG BUY-BUST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>AGENTS of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Friday night arrested three Nigerian nationals, including an alleged evangelist pastor, accused of involvement in big-time drug trafficking activities in separate buy-bust operations in Bacoor City, Cavite.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seized were nearly P11.336 million worth of shabu and ecstasy tablets.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:image {\"id\":12204,\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1023\" height=\"749\" src=\"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ms9xf3ea.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ms9xf3ea.png 1023w, https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ms9xf3ea-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ms9xf3ea-768x562.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\"><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The PDEA identified the arrested as \u201cStanley,\u201d 34, said to be an evangelist pastor; alias \u2018Ik,\u2019 a 30-year-old student; and an alias \u201cKenneth,\u201d23, a jobless man, all residents of Bacoor City.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0A report from the PDEA chaired by Director General Isagani R. Nerez said that the first two suspects were arrested by undercover officers from the Regional Office 4-A and Cavite Provincial Office in a buy-bust operation in front of a pharmacy in Bgy. Molino III around 8:40 p.m. Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Confiscated from the duo were some 800 pieces of suspected ecstasy tablets worth P1.360 million; a heat-sealed plastic packet containing an estimated 50 grams of shabu valued at P340,000 and the buy-bust money topped by a marked bill.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The third suspect was arrested nearly three hours later in a follow-up operation in Magdiwang Road in Bgy. Molino II.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recovered from the third suspect were eight plastic bags containing 4,753 pieces of pink, blue, purple, brown, gray and orange tablets believed to be the designer drug called ecstasy, a plastic packet containing some 230 grams of shabu valued at P1.565 million and several bags containing suspected powdered ecstasy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The value of drugs confiscated from the third \u00a0suspect was placed at around P9.636 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-bailable charges for sale and possession of prohibited drugs under Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 were filed against the arrested Nigerian nationals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AGENTS of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Friday night arrested three Nigerian nationals, including an alleged evangelist pastor, accused of involvement in big-time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12205,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201\/revisions\/12205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}