Three shabu pushers were arrested by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) – Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) in two separate buy-bust operations in the city on April 7.


Carmina Dizon Atienza, 21, single, high school undergraduate, native of Angeles City, Pampanga and resident of Block II, Lot 41, No. 30 St. PZMRC, Dapdap, Mabalacat, Pampanga, was nabbed at around 3:30PM near the Solibao Restaurant in Burnham Park.


Atienza sold one sachet of shabu, containing .2 gram of the dangerous drug to a PDEA – CAR agent who posed as buyer. She claimed she gets the shabu that she peddles in Baguio City from a supplier in Pampanga.
Meanwhile, Alexander Tagano Pido, 27, married, high school undergraduate, jobless, native of Tubod, Lanao Del Norte and resident of Quezon Hill, Baguio City; and Al Mala Macabalang, 21, male, married, high school undergraduate, jobless, native of Marawi City, Lanao Del Sur and resident of No. 3 San Luis Village, Baguio City, were apprehended within the vicinity of Malcolm Square, Baguio City at about 5:45 PM after they sold a sachet of .09 gram of shabu to a PDEA – CAR agent poseur-buyer.


Rolls of aluminum foil used in sniffing shabu, were likewise seized by the operatives from Pido.


Pido had been previously implicated in murder and robbery cases, while Macabalang had been involved in a Theft case. They point to a drug group in Baguio City as their shabu source. *(PDEA//PIA CAR)