Three drug personalities were arrested by anti-narcotics agents from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Abra Provincial Office, PDEA Cordillera Regional Office, and local police earlier today during the simultaneous implementation of search warrants in Abra.
Jay Borreta Azurin, 38 years old, tricycle driver, leader of a local drug group operating in Abra and a resident of Barangay Agtangao, Bangued, Abra was arrested together with his 28-year old female cohort, alias Trixy, who is a native of Sta. Rosa, Laguna but presently residing at Zone 7, Bangued, Abra.
Authorities confiscated within Azurin’s compound were 16 heat-sealed transparent sachets containing suspected shabu, two knot-tied transparent plastic sachets containing suspected shabu, a sachet containing suspected dried marijuana leaves, a Beretta cal. 22 firearm, a Bersa cal. 40 firearm, several drug paraphernalia and several live ammunition.
In Barangay Cabuloan, Bangued, Abra, government troops searched the house of a 28-year old female leader of another local drug group operating in Abra. The search yielded three heat-sealed transparent sachets containing suspected shabu worth P4,000.
A combined weight of more or less 121 grams of shabu worth P824,000 were seized in the operations.
Azurin and his aide will be facing cases for violation of Republic Act Number 9165 or the “Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002” and Republic Act Number 10591 or the “Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulation Act” while the other female drug group leader will be slapped with a case for violating R.A. No. 9165.
PDEA-CAR Press Release
