ZAMBOANGA
CITY: Rumors are afloat about a “floating shabu laboratory” somewhere in this
city but police said they detected none so far.
ZCPO
director Angelito Casimiro denied such rumors following one local radio report
that said a clandestine shabu laboratory is operating in the territorial
jurisdiction of Zamboanga.
Casimiro
was definite in his statement, saying the police “don’t have such information.”
He
only mentioned about a PDEA information that said a drug syndicate holed up in Tawi-Tawi
dilutes shabu shipped from Luzon and Visayas.
He
added the syndicate does this to “reproduce” the unadulterated methamphetamine into
large quantities.
Casimiro
also disclosed that the shabu coming from Luzon and Visayas areas use the
cities of Ozamiz and Zamboanga as transshipment points to Tawi-Tawi.
The
diluted shabu will then be re-distributed to other drug regions of the archipelago, Casimiro
ended.