CEBU CITY, Jan. 9 -- The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Central Visayas has dismantled two drug dens and arrested eight drug suspects in the first operations here of the year, an official said Monday.

Leia Alviar Alcantara, PDEA-7 public affairs chief, said the agency dismantled a drug den in Barangay Duljo-Fatima on Sunday and arrested the 68-year-old alleged maintainer, Bebie Alya alias "Nanay", and the two visitors identified as Arnulfo Laresma, 56, and Joy Labaya, 41.

The agents seized from the suspects 19 packs of suspected shabu weighing around 12 grams with an estimated street value of PHP81,900, buy-bust money, cash amounting to PHP490 believed to be proceeds from illegal transaction and various sniffing parapherna...