BACOLOD CITY — Two persons, including a teenage boy facing murder and robbery charges in Cebu province, were arrested in a buy-bust operation and yielded PHP260,000 worth of suspected shabu (crystal meth) at Barangay 12 here over the weekend.
The Bacolod City Police Office, in a report released Sunday night, identified one of the suspects as Joric Epogon, 21, while it withheld the identity of the 16-year-old suspect. Both are residents of Barangay San Jose, Sipalay City in Negros Occidental.
During the operation around 1 a.m. on October 6 by personnel of the City Drug Enforcement Unit, an undercover cop managed to buy a sachet of suspected shabu worth PHP1,000 from Epogon with the minor acting as a courier.
Operatives seized from Epogon and his minor accomplice four big and four small sachets of suspected shabu.
The two suspects resisted arrest, prompting policemen to use force that brought “self-inflicted” injuries to Epogon and his minor companion, police said.
Police records showed the two are involved in a school robbery in Moalboal town and in a murder case in Dumanjug town.
After their arrest in Bacolod, the two suspects will be slapped with various drug charges. (/PNA)
