EDITORIAL - Drugs and smuggling
The drug war is going big-time, with anti-narcotics agents killing the suspected operator of a shabu manufacturing facility in Valenzuela. Police raiders said Chinese national Meco Tan was shot dead when he tried to flee in his car during yesterday’s early morning raid.
Philippine National Police chief Ronald dela Rosa warned that more large-scale drug traffickers would fall in the coming days, amid observations that the drug war has so far focused only on small-scale and mostly low-income street pushers and impoverished drug users.
Video footage of yesterday’s raid showed sacks of suspected shabu precursors and the finished product piled high at Tan’s home, which also allegedly served as his laboratory. With the large amount of substances found in that raid, authorities should complement the drug war with tighter controls on the supply of precursors for prohibited drugs.
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