Cops bust budding shabu lab operation in Manila — report

Police claimed to have busted a budding drug laboratory operation following the arrest of two foreigners and the raid of the laboratory in Manila Monday night. Radio dzBB reported Tuesday that Manila Police District Station 11 head Superintendent Rogelio Rosales said the laboratory, which he described as "small-scale," had started operating only two weeks ago. The MPD Station 11, armed with a search warrant, raided the laboratory at an apartment located at the corner of Aguilar Street and C.M. Recto Avenue Monday night. Police also arrested two foreigners linked to the laboratory, initially identified as Hong Kong national Lee Hyong Wee and Taiwanese Kwo Won Sing. A separate report on dzXL radio said the arrest of the two last Saturday led to Monday night's raid. Found in the apartment's second floor were a half-kilo of methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu) worth some P1 million along with chemicals used to make the drug, the dzXL report said. — RSJ, GMANews.TV