The Eastern Police District has recovered guns and sachets of shabu (methamphetamine) from relatives of Amin Imam Boratong, the supposed mastermind of a shabu “tiangge” shut down by Pasig police in 2006.
The Philippine Star reports more than 120 members of the EPD staged a raid on Boratong’s house and two other houses in Mapayapa Compound in Pasig City last Sunday.
Acsamen Amer “Mac-Mac” Boratong and Aleman “Boy Negro” Boratong , and Joey “Jeremiah” Mamon, Boratong’s nephews who were the subjects of the raid, escaped.
“They were drinking liquor when we arrived. They appeared to notice our arrival through the surveillance camera,” EPD deputy chief Senior Superintendent Danilo Maligalig said. The bottles were still cold when the police arrived, the report said.
Police found an “AK-47 assault rifle, a 9mm submachine pistol, a Llama caliber .45 pistol, assorted bullets, several sachets of shabu, drug paraphernalia, two handheld radios, a smoke bomb, binoculars, an improvised explosive device, and four cell phones.”
Authorities shut down the shabu “tiangge”, or market, in Pasig City in 2006 but the EPD says Boratong’s nephews are responsible for the proliferation of shabu in Pasig and in nearby cities.
