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<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1755679767149viber_image_2025-08-20_16-08-22-767.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="This Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency handout photo shows a PDEA agent conducting an inventory of evidence from a buy-bust. A suspect is in the background. Photo courtesy: PDEA"/>This Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency handout photo shows a PDEA agent conducting an inventory of evidence from a buy-bust. A suspect is in the background. Photo courtesy: PDEA</div>MANILA — A drug suspect reportedly died of a heart attack following a buy-bust operation that led to the confiscation of around P6.8 million of suspected shabu in a casino hotel in Parañaque City, on Tuesday evening, August 19.The joint anti-drug operation was conducted at around 10:30 p.m. by operatives from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Cavite Provincial Office, PDEA Regional Office National Capital Region – Southern District Office, and the Special Operations Unit of the Philippine National Police Drug Enforcement Group (PNP-DEG).Three suspects were initially arrested during the operation.However, authorities reported that one of them resisted arrest and stabbed one of the operatives, prompting a struggle to subdue him.“Dahil ho diyan, they grappled doon sa weapon. Noong nagkaroon na ng grappling, naatake sa puso ‘yong suspek,” said PDEA spokesperson Atty. Joseph Frederick Calulut.(They grappled for the weapon and the suspect had a heart attack during the struggle)The suspect, later identified as a 49-year-old resident of Makati City, was rushed to a nearby hospital but was declared dead shortly after.The two other suspects are a 32-year-old German-Syrian national and a 24-year-old Filipina from Quezon City.<div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/regions/2025/8/1/p9-5-million-worth-of-illegal-drugs-seized-in-simultaneous-operations-1918">P9.5 million worth of illegal drugs seized in simultaneous operations </a></div>Calulut said PDEA had been monitoring the suspects and had even previously had transactions with them to build the case up.“But as to their involvement sa drug groups, chini-check po natin ‘yan,” he added.(We are still checking on their involvement in drug groups)Seized from the suspects were approximately 1,000 grams of suspected “shabu,” buy-bust money, and a glass pipe.The suspects are currently detained at the PDEA Regional Office 4A Custodial Facility in Santa Rosa City, Laguna and will be charged for violation of Republic Act No. 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

A drug suspect reportedly died of a heart attack following a buy-bust operation that led to the confiscation of around P6.8 million of suspected shabu in a casino hotel in Parañaque City, on Tuesday evening, August 19.

A drug suspect reportedly died of a heart attack following a buy-bust operation that led to the confiscation of around P6.8 million of suspected shabu in a casino hotel in Parañaque City, on Tuesday evening, August 19.

Drug suspect dies of ‘heart attack’ during buy-bust operation in Parañaque

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Drug suspect dies of ‘heart attack’ during buy-bust operation in Parañaque

Jessie Cruzat,

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Published August 20, 2025 05:01 PM PHT

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