The date was Dec. 31, 2004. A shabu laboratory in Ulas, Davao city along the highway to Toril had just been raided. The raiding team was composed of agents from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) of Region XI led by its head Wilkins Villanueva. Some elements that joined the team came from PDEA’s national headquarters in Manila.
The arrest and its subsequent activities happened in quick succession. First of all, hundreds of kilos of high-grade shabu were recovered from the laboratory. Six Chinese nationals were killed during the raid. Apprehended were eleven Chinese nationals, some of them were working as shabu chemists.
And that was the major problem. All the…