I haven’t heard such a case even in the most imaginative crime movie or novel. Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency operatives surveil an apartment for days, based on information that it is a shabu factory or at least a stockroom for the ingredients to manufacture it. Near to giving up that no one is going to the apartment—and therefore no drug operator will be caught—two men enter it, with a key which is what you have if you own or rent an apartment.
The man with the key turns out to be Marine Lt. Col. Ferdinand Marcelino, and his companion was a Chinese national Yan Yi Shou, who used to be a PDEA interpreter. Found in the apartment which Marcelino opened with his key were ingredients and equipment for manufacturing 76 kilos of shabu, which the PDEA claimed was worth P383 million (where do they get those precise figures?).
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