KORONADAL CITY–Police said they arrested a “notorious” drug pusher who is allegedly linked to a local drug group during a buy-bust operation at a remote village here on Tuesday evening.
Supt. Ronald Allan Penaverde, Koronadal City police chief, identified the suspect as construction worker Hermogenes Marcos Flores, 35, a resident of Purok Malipayon in Barangay Topland.
Penaverde said Flores was nabbed near his home at around 9:30 p.m. after selling a sachet of suspected methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu to a police asset who posed as a buyer.
He said operatives recovered from the suspect two more sachets of suspected shabu with an estimated value of PHP2,000, various drug paraphernalia and PHP500 marked bill used in the buy-bust.
The drug operation was witnessed by officials of Barangay Topland and media workers.
Penaverde said Flores is in the local police’s drug watchlist.
“He was used by a local drug syndicate as conduit in the trading of illegal drugs in the area and nearby barangays,” he said. (Alejandro Saludo/PNA)
