Cotabato City, Jan. 8 -- Anti-narcotics agents dismantled a drug den and arrested its operator and three cohorts in this city on Wednesday night, according to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-BARMM).

In a statement on Thursday, PDEA-BARMM Regional Director Benjamin C. Recites III said the joint buy-bust operation by PDEA and city police drug enforcement operatives resulted in the arrest of a regional target-list personality and his companions in Barangay Rosary Heights 11.

"Among those arrested were alias Kamlon, 48, the drug den operator and a resident of the village, after they were caught in a pot session inside the den," Recites said.

Seized from the suspects were ...