Senior Supt. Rodolfo Recomono, Pampanga police director, opens one of 10 aluminum packs of shabu surrendered on Oct. 13 by an inmate at the New Bilibid Prison. Reaching out through another convict, the inmate faciliated the delivery of the shabu to Apalit town and the shabu was left inside an abandoned car. (PHOTO BY TONETTE T. OREJAS/ INQUIRER CENTRAL LUZON)
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO 鈥� Using information provided by聽convicts inside the New Bilibid Prisons, the Pampanga police recovered, on聽Thursday (Oct. 13), P220 million worth of shabu (methamphetamine聽hydrochloride) that was surrendered by an accomplice of convicted drug聽pusher Ryan Ong.
Supt. Jean Fajardo, chief of the City of San Fernando police, recovered the聽contraband in an abandoned Nissan LEC car (with license plate nos. TLX665)聽at Barangay (village) San Vicente in Apalit town.
Ten aluminum packs filled with 10 kilos of shabu were inside a white sports聽bag.
Witnesses said they saw the car in the area at around 11:30 a.m.
It was driven there upon the instructions of Ong, who reached out through聽convicted carnapper Raymond Dominguez, said Senior Supt. Rodolfo Recomono,聽provincial police director.
Citing Dominguez鈥� information, the contraband was part of a shabu haul聽confiscated in July by the Bulacan police.
Dominguez assured a go-between sent by Recomono that Ong had yielded the聽shabu to clear his name. The operation was coordinated with NBP officials.
Earlier, the shabu was supposed to have been driven to this Pampanga capital聽but was brought instead to Apalit for still unknown reasons, Recomono said. 聽SFM