Cagayan de Oro buy-bust yields P6.8-M alleged shabu

Inquirer.net - Sep 27, 2026

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — Police seized around a kilogram of suspected shabu worth P6.8 million and arrested a high-value suspect in a sting operation in Barangay Indahag here late Saturday afternoon. The joint operation, led by the Regional Police Drug Enforcement Unit 10 (RPDEU-10) in coordination with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), took

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