BACOLOD CITY — Five persons were arrested while PHP606,000 worth of suspected “shabu” were seized in three separate buy-bust operations in the cities of Kabankalan and Silay in Negros Occidental on Tuesday, provincial police reports showed.
The first operation of the Kabankalan City police in Purok 6, Barangay 3 at about 2:30 p.m. led to the arrest of Douglas Arroz Jr., 28, who sold a sachet of suspected shabu to an undercover policeman for PHP500 at the residence of Jasem Ler Bajada, 21.
Arroz tried to evade arrest but he was cornered when other operatives were able to enter the house.
Policemen also found Bajada and the third suspect, Justine Tagamolila, 21, inside the house holding a “pot session”.
Arroz, a street-level target, also yielded eight sachets containing suspected shabu, drug paraphernalia such as glass tooters, disposal lighters, and digital weighing scales, and PHP3,400 cash.
Tagamolila was also found in possession of 10 plastic sachets of suspected shabu and PHP150. The illegal drugs seized from the two suspects were valued at PHP180,000.
In the second operation at the RGA Pension House in Barangay 4 at about 6:30 p.m., operatives arrested Alo Bacarat, 38, a drug suspect who is out on bail.
Bacarat sold a sachet of suspected shabu for PHP500 to a police poseur-buyer inside his rented room, where the rest of his illegal drug supply was found.
He yielded eight sachets of suspected shabu with an estimated value of PHP246,000, and PHP2,133 cash.
In Silay City, anti-drug operatives arrested Carlos Jaen, 29, in Villahergon, Barangay Rizal at about 4:50 p.m.
Policemen found in his possession 17 sachets of suspected shabu weighing 12 grams valued at PHP180,000.
Jaen, who is on the target list of the Silay City police, sold PHP12,000 worth of the illegal substance to an undercover policeman. (Nanette Guadalquiver/PNA)
