End of the road for young shabu dealer in Baguio

October 4, 2020 Headlines

BAGUIO CITY (October 2, 2020) – Young as he is, John Anthony Rosal, only 29, caught Thursday evening by NBI and PDEA agents for selling over 18.02 grams of shabu to a government informant, was already indicted here for selling shabu eight years ago while he was 21.
Still believing he is off the hook and denying he was selling shabu, “his end” might finally sink into him now, as he could no longer post bail with the over P122,000 worth of illegal drugs found in him. Aside from being tested positive of using shabu too.
“I tried to grab him with his jacket but he sped away (on his motorcycle),” narrated Special Investigator III Nielbert Pisec of the NBI-CAR who led the joint NBI-PDEA Cordillera agents in catching Rosal receive the boodle money and hand over the shabu to an informant.
Rosal sped to slippery downhill and dimly lit Wagner road, abandoned his two-wheeled vehicle and jacket at least 50 meters away from where he sold the shabu and barged into a house to hide. NBI agents cornered him under a wooden bed gasping. More than him being tired, he looked scared. He too looked he got a good sniff minutes before his supposed successful sale that Thursday afternoon.
“Kapapanganak lang asawa ko,” he told, disbelieving the swarm of government agents around him where he was cornered.
“The shabu is high-grade” claimed Baguio City assistant prosecutor Oliver Prudencio who led the evidence inventory procedure attended by a barangay official and a local broadcast journalist. Perhaps the biggest haul yet here in the past months in the city, the seized shabu were tested positive by an NBI chemist Thursday night. Rosal also turned out positive of shabu use. Rosal is the 7th big time shabu dealer caught in the city since July, authorities said.