COTABATO CITY, Feb. 20 -- Anti-narcotics operatives arrested an alleged big-time drug peddler from Sultan Kudarat province and seized PHP3.4 million worth of "shabu" during a buy-bust along Sinsuat Avenue here on Monday night.

Agent Jocelyn Mary of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-BARMM) said suspect Norhan Padao, of Isulan town in Sultan Kudarat province, was placed under surveillance for a month before the 7 p.m. sting operation in Barangay Poblacion 5.

"We are determining who his principals are and where he gets his supplies," Mary said in the vernacular.

Padao yielded 10 sachets of suspected shabu, weighing 500 grams placed inside a baby diaper, and the PHP600,000 b...