By JEL SANTOS
Police seized Monday around P2 million worth of party drugs from two college students during a raid on a condominium unit in Makati City.
The occupant of the condominium unit identified as Adriel Ryoichi Suzuki , 24, half Japanese, a fourth year human resource management student of an exclusive school on Taft Avenue in Manila, was arrested along with his alleged cohort, Ralph Jeffrey Esteban, 23, an entrepreneurship student of the same school.
Suzuki said both his parents are working in Tokyo.
Director Guillermo Eleazar, National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) chief, said a courier, who was hired by the suspects to deliver illegal drugs, alerted the police after he got suspicious of the contents of the package.
“The driver got suspicious of the package because they do not want to disclose what it contains. After delivering the package, he went to the cops and reported the suspicious package,” he told the media.
Around 10 a.m., police coordinated with the management of the condominium and raided Suzuki’s unit in Barangay Pio del Pilar, Makati.
The raiding cops found illegal drugs inside the unit, prompting them to arrest Suzuki.
Then, police learned that Esteban was about to come to the unit of Suzuki to deliver ecstasy so they waited and apprehended him too.
Suzuki claimed that they were just doing business with their schoolmates.
“We are just selling to our schoolmates. Same circle lang. They contact us and we transact with them,” he said while covering his face.
He said Esteban is a bigger fish compared to him.
According to him, there are people bigger than them who they can identify to authorities. “All of them are also students,” he added.
Suzuki said he just started to sell drugs last year due to his peers.
“Influence of my friends that’s what got me into this. I really wanted to stop this. Actually, these are stocks na lang that I sell to those buying,” he said.
Esteban, on the other hand, denied that he is a big fish, saying Suzuki is way bigger than him.
“I just brought him 20 pieces of ecstasy since my friend told me to bring it to him. Adriel is way bigger than I am,” he said.
“This is just the first time I met him,” Esteban said. “I don’t even know him personally.”
Senior Supt. Rogelio Simon, Makati police chief, belied what he said, saying that 87 pieces of party drugs were seized from Esteban.
Esteban, meanwhile, allowed the cops to search his condominium unit in Manila. He said police will not find anything inside his unit. (Jel Santos)
