Last night, Quezon City police found a power bank that juiced up more than just phones.
Found in the possession of suspected drug pusher JR Abrera and his cohort Albert Aboga was a power bank that contained sachets of suspected shabu (meth), GMA News’ Balitambayan reported.
The two were nabbed during a buy-bust operation in Barangay (Village) Payatas B, Quezon City where the two are trash collectors. Authorities managed to buy illegal drugs from the suspects, which led to their arrest, Radyo Inquirer wrote.
Apart from the shabu sold to the police, 13 sachets of suspected shabu worth PHP15,000 (US$288.63) were found inside a power bank in their possession, GMA News reported.
Abrera said they put it inside the gadget because no one ever thinks a power bank would have drugs inside, ABS-CBN News wrote.
“I also assemble power banks so I thought of putting [the drugs] inside it,” he said in Filipino, according to GMA News.
Meanwhile, Aboga denied being a drug pusher and said that he just bought the shabu to use with his fellow trash collectors who work late at night.
Drug pushers are apparently getting really creative with their hiding places. Chief Insp. Sandie Caparroso of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) Station 6 told ABS-CBN News that some hide drugs under bikes and inside (hair) blowers.
Just last week, a woman was caught delivering shabu hidden inside a loaf of bread to an inmate.
Abrera and Aboga are now detained in QCPD Station 6 and are facing charges for violating RA 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
Looks like ingenuity can only take you so far.
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