COTABATO CITY (Saturday, August 30, 2025) — Two peddlers, long under surveillance for their large-scale trafficking of shabu, were entrapped by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement-9 in Barangay Crossing Santa Clara in Naga, Zamboanga Sibugay on Wednesday, August 27.

Local executives, among them members of the multi-sector Naga Municipal Peace and Order Council, told reporters on Thursday, August 28, that agents of the PDEA-9 had seized from the suspects, initially identified only as Jayson, 39, and his 32-year-old female accomplice, Juvy, 50 grams of shabu, costing P340,000, during a tradeoff right in their hideout in Purok 1 in Barangay Crossing Santa Clara.

Bryan Babang, director of PDEA-9, said the duo yielded peacefully when they sensed that they had sold shabu to anti-narcotics agents during the entrapment operation, which was laid with the help of personnel of the Naga Municipal Police Station and the Zamboanga Sibugay Provincial Police Office.

Babang said the entrapment operation that led to the arrest of the two suspects, whose real names were withheld while efforts to locate their accomplices in different towns in Zamboanga Sibugay are still underway, was assisted by different units under Brig. Gen. Eleazar Matta, director of the Police Regional Office-9.

Local officials in Naga said the two now detained suspects distributed shabu to contacts in different barangays in Naga and occasionally facilitated clandestine pot sessions for villagers.

Photo shows the two shabu peddlers entrapped on Wednesday by agents of the PDEA-9, now both detained, to be prosecuted for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.