PDEA destroys confiscated illegal drugs

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) destroyed confiscated unlawful medicine and different items of proof from its numerous operations.

According to Oscar Oida’s report on “24 Oras,” the seized medicine had been destroyed in Cavite by way of thermal decomposition or thermolysis which makes use of the know-how of burning with warmth that reaches 10 occasions that of a boiling water.

On December 7, 2022, over P9 million of suspected shabu had been confiscated in a raid at Barangay Upper Bicutan in Taguig, which additionally resulted within the arrest of three PDEA personnel.

“Yung buong SDO (Southern District Office) na re-assign sila siyempre hihiram din kami ng personnel from other offices siyempre para swapping din lang but di na sila southern,” PDEA director general Moro Virgilio Lazo said.

“Sana i-reconsider nila, you understand in bicutan sinabi ko nga kay SILG baka pwedeng kausapin si Mayor Cayetano na baka pwede i-reconsider,” Lazo added, in relation to the withdrawal of the constructing that was supposed for use by the PDEA from Taguig City Hall, following the incident.—Sherylin Untalan/LDF, GMA Integrated New