Chinese killed in Paranaque buy-bust is son of arrested man in Bulacan operations

June 8, 2020

The Chinese suspect killed in a buy-bust operation in Parañaque City over the weekend is the son of the Chinese arrested in Marilao, Bulacan last June 4, the chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Monday.

During the presentation of the confiscated illegal drugs in Camp Crame, PNP chief Police General Archie Francisco Gamboa said Yuwen Cai, the alleged caretaker of an illegal drugs warehouse in Bulacan is the father of Jin Long Cai.

“His (Jin Long Cai) father was the one arrested in Bulacan,” Gamboa said.

He added that the operation against Jin Long Cai is a follow-up of the warehouse raid they conducted.

“So if you see the packaging in Parañaque and this one are almost the same,” Gamboa said.

According to Gamboa, since January 1, the PNP- Drug Enforcement Group has conducted 25 operations where they were able to confiscate 890 kilograms of shabu amounting to around P6 billion.

“I would like to point out that 93 percent of the confiscated shabu since January was the result of four days of operations on June 1 to 4, particularly in the raid conducted on a shabu warehouse in Bulacan,” he said.

During Bulacan operation, authorities confiscated around 756 kilos of suspected shabu amounting to P5, 140, 800, 000 while P244. 8 million worth of illegal drugs were seized from the Parañaque City operation.

“I am proud to note that the Police Regional Offices and National Operational Support Units managed to sustain anti-illegal drugs and anti-criminality operations without let-up during the entire ECQ (enhanced community quarantine) period and vigorously pushed onwards thru the opening days of the MGCQ (modified general community quarantine)/GCQ even as these units continue to follow strict public safety standards as per IATF rules and regulations,” Gamboa said.

Asked about the source of illegal drugs, the chief of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said they are still conducting profiling.

“As far as the source of the drug, we still have to conduct profiling and will coordinate with foreign counterparts to find the counterpart… if you can recall, it has the same packaging with the operation last December in Quezon City,” Director General Wilkins Villanueva said.

“We already profile that, now we will look into the profile of the new confiscation so that we will know what country it came from,” Villanueva said.

Unlike the previous confiscation where the illegal drugs were kept in boxes of Chinese tea bags, the illegal drugs mentioned by Villanueva were found in packaging with Japanese characters placed inside Thailand brand biscuit cans.

Last week, Gamboa said this could be a tactic from illegal drugs syndicates to divert the attention of the authority.

The PNP chief reiterated that there is a possibility that the illegal drugs found in Cai’s residence were imported and did not come from any shabu laboratory in the country.

On the part of the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB), Chairman Catalino Cuy said the illegal drugs were not transported during the ECQ period.

“We believed they are somewhat on standby during ECQ because they know the restrictions that are being implemented by law enforcers with regards to movement and logistics. More likely, the syndicates are now trying to recover their loss earnings,” Cuy said.

“They are trying to catch up with their inventory. They want to dispose it now,” he added.

The PNP said their latest accomplishment is unprecedented in the last five years, a milestone that they are proud to have achieved in the midst of challenging times. Ella Dionisio/DMS