A police anti-narcotics crack team collared on Thursday the leader of an illegal drug syndicate operating in Camarines Norte, police officer said in an interview Friday.
Arrested was Arnold Zantua alias Dodong, suspected leader of the Dodong Zantua drug syndicate, who was collared at his residence at Hollywood St. in Daet town, Camarines Norte, said Police Senior Supt. Roberto B. Fajardo, Philippine National Police (PNP) provincial director.
Fajardo said the arrest of the suspect was the result of intensified surveillance operation carried out by his police intelligence unit in close coordination with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA).
Anti-narcotics operatives swooped down on the suspect's residence around 6 a.m. Thursday on the strength of a warrant of arrest issued by a local court.
The suspect did not resist arrest. The police operatives found in his house a 45 caliber handgun, 9mm pistol, .38 revolver, a grenade, two air rifles, 20 grams of shabu and P313,770 cash believed to be drug money, and several drug paraphernalia.
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