City police director Senior Supt. Pierre Bucsit would not immediately identify the Chinese suspects as they spoke only Chinese and had no documents to establish their identities.
Bucsit’s teams simultaneously raided at about 9 a.m. Thursday suspected shabu laboratories at 1011 Ohio St. in Villasol subdivision in Anunas and a house along Sandiko St. in Diamond subdivision in Balibago backed by a search warrant issued by a local court.
Two Chinese nationals were arrested in Diamond and three more in Villasol, Busit said.
The raiders found raw materials and paraphernalia for shabu manufacturing as well as finished products in both houses, he noted.
Bucsit said that inventories were still being conducted by his men as of press time, but noted that the raided areas were not big enough for large-scale shabu production.
“I suppose that the raided laboratories produced as much as 10 kilos of shabu each per week,” he noted.
He said that his investigators sought a court search warrant on the raided areas following intelligence information on “environmental indicators” of shabu manufacture, suspicious movements of people and presence of aliens at the houses.
Bucsit said his investigators are still probing deeper into the two cases to find out their sources of raw materials.
Investigators said that the two shabu laboratories could have been the source of shabu of the notorious Roxas St. in nearby Mabalacat town where shabu trading has reportedly become regular source of income for many households.
