New scandal rocks PDEA

THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) is again rocked by yet another damning scandal, this time involving the arrest of a close relative of the agency chief and a high-profile drug inmate who were both arrested in a drug bust in Cabanatuan City last week.

It almost came to pass as another ordinary drug bust but The Manila Times’ sources at the PDEA claimed that the arrested drug suspects— PO2Fraklin Ariap and “agent” Jean Granada—are, respectively, a relative of PDEA Director General Arturo Cacdac and an inmate who was involved in the theft of some 7 kilos of methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu inside the PDEA premises in 2006.