Authorities laid out an entrapment operation at around 10:10 pm within the vicinity of Barangay Hall of Tumaga after days of surveillance of the three suspects. Authorities, however, withheld the identities of the suspects pending the investigation.
Police said they received
information of people engaged in human trafficking, thus, immediately conducted
surveillance operation against the group. After gathering much information, the
entrapment operation was carried out.
Confiscated from one of the suspects
is the P3,000.00 marked money used by a poser to pay the suspects.
The suspects are now being
investigated to uncover the group’s operations to put a stop on the rampant
human trafficking in this part of the region.
For the past weeks, authorities have
rescued over 60 human trafficking victims in separate operations mostly, in
Tawi-Tawi area, all bound for Malaysia. The arrest of the suspects is hoped to
shed light on the process and extent of illegal recruitment here and even all
over the country. (MVC/PIA9-ZBST)