SULTAN KUDARAT, April 23 -- Police arrested here Monday afternoon an alleged big-time drug peddler and seized from him over P2.7 million worth of "shabu" drugs

Lt. Colonel Esmael Madin, municipal police chief, identified the suspect as Jobert Paches, 27, of Barangay Mother Poblacion, Cotabato City.

A team of police and anti-narcotics operatives nabbed the suspect during a 3 p.m. drug buy-bust operation in Barangay Limbo of this town.

Paches yielded eight huge sachets of shabu with a market value of P2,720,000, a minivan, boodle money, and other non-drug items, Madin said.

Since January this year, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region have confiscated over PHP50 millio...