COTABATO CITY, Maguindanao: The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-ARMM) arrested a couple and their son for possession of illegal drugs, while another man was detained for assorted unlicensed firearms and grenades in a separate police raid, officials said on Friday.

Anti-narcotics agents backed by Army Special Forces raided a house in Sitio Bubong, Barangay Kalanganan 2, Cotabato City at around 11 p.m., where they arrested Abe Hassan Hussain alias Kagi Abel, his wife Noraisa Baliwan Hussain, and their 22-year-old son Jaime Kasan. Kagi Abel was the target of the PDEA operation.

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