• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
Almost P1 million worth of suspected shabu and an unlicensed firearm were seized by the police from four suspects in separate buy-bust operations in four cities of Negros Occidental.
Policemen on Friday, April 12, arrested alias Tisoy, classified as a high-value individual drug personality, in Barangay Handumanan, Bacolod City.
Operatives of the City Drug Enforcement Unit seized an estimated 125 grams of suspected shabu worth P850,000 and a caliber .45 pistol from the suspect.
PBrig. Gen. Jack Wanky, regional police director of Western Visayas, congratulated the Bacolod City Police Office CDEU for the successful operation.
A similar anti-drug operation at Purok Paraiso in Barangay Hilamonan, Kabankalan City on April 11 led to the confiscation of about 14 grams of suspected shabu valued at P95,200 and assorted drug paraphernalia.
The separate apprehensions of two more drug suspects in cities of Victorias and Escalante yielded an estimated five grams of suspected shabu worth P34,000, police records showed.
All the four arrested drug suspects are now locked up in jail. | GB
