BACOLOD CITY — A total of PHP360,000 in suspected shabu (crystal meth) were seized in three separate operations in the cities of Silay and Bacolod in Negros Occidental this week, police reports showed.
In Silay City, two people were arrested during a buy-bust at Burgos-Rizal area in Barangay 2 around 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
Subject Joyny Lacson, 38, and common-law-wife Janny Jordan, 42, both residents of Barangay Catabla in the neighboring Talisay City, yielded about 15 grams of suspected shabu valued at PHP180,000 along with drug paraphernalia and PHP1,020 in cash.
Lacson, who is included on the drugs target list of Talisay City Police Station, and Jordan, who is a drug surrenderer, sold PHP15,500 worth of the prohibited substance to a police undercover.
The couple, who work as fruit vendors, were arrested by joint operatives of the Talisay and Silay police stations.
Two days earleir, Julie Ann Palaras, 28, was apprehended during a buy-bust around 1:15 p.m. in the vicinity of Teresita Lopez Jalandoni Provincial Hospital also in Silay City.
Palaras, a newly-identified drug personality from Purok Kahilwayan, Barangay 2, was caught when she sold PHP5,000 worth of suspected shabu to police poseur-buyer.
She also yielded eight grams of the same substance with a market value of PHP60,000.
On Tuesday, Reinier Aguilar, 47, was arrested in a buy-bust at Barangay 27 in Bacolod City.
The operation, conducted by personnel of the City Drug Enforcement Unit, led to the confiscation of nine sachets of suspected shabu valued at PHP120,000 from the suspect. (Nanette Guadalquiver/PNA)
