3 FOREIGNERS HELD FOR P5-M SHABU

The government scored anew in the fight against illegal drugs with the
arrest of three foreign nationals, including two Chinese, and a
Filipino during separate operations in Quezon City and Mandaluyong
Monday night that resulted in the seizure of P5 million worth of shabu.

Deputy Director General Edgar Aglipay, chief of the PNP Anti-Illegal
Drugs Special Task Force, presented the suspects to media at the
Philippine Drugs Enforcement Agency building yesterday.

They were Yan Quan Wang, alias Johnny Ong, 30, and Zhi Gen Wang, alias
Jorge Ong, both natives of Fujian, China; Rox Ramos, 31, of Heroes
Hill, Quezon City; and Korean Saek Joo Kim, 31, and presently billeted
at Millennium Towers in Makati City.

Aglipay said the two Chinese and Ramos were arrested after they
conspired to sell over two kilos of shabu to undercover officers led
by Supt. Eduardo Aciento at the corner of West and Quezon avenues,
Quezon City.

He said Yan and Zhi tried to bribe the operatives with P300,000 in
exchange for their freedom but their offer was ignored.

On the other hand, Kim was nabbed in a drug sting at 11:30 p.m. Monday
in Barangay Plainview, Mandaluyong City. He yielded four sachets of
shabu.

Kim's cohort identified only as a certain "Lando" managed to
escape.