• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
Twelve individuals are now locked up in jail, following their arrests in buy-busts on Dec. 8 and 9 in Negros Occidental.
The operations also yielded firearms and an estimated P200,000 worth of illegal drugs.
Eight of them, among them a local government unit employee and two tricycle drivers, whose identities were withheld by the police, were apprehended at Hacienda Adriana, Barangay E. Lopez, Silay City.
About eight grams of suspected shabu, with a market value of P54,400, marked money of P3,200 and assorted shabu paraphernalia, were seized from the suspects.
Two other drug suspects, identified by the police as William Dingcong and Sonio Santillan, were arrested in another operation on Dec. 8 at Pueblo Subdivision, Barangay Daga, Cadiz City.
Dingcong and Santillan, both categorized as street-level individuals, yielded an estimated eight grams of suspected shabu worth P54,400, a caliber .38 revolver with four ammunition, and P500 marked money.
The police also reported the apprehension on Dec. 8 of three other drug personalities in cities of Talisay and Victorias, as well as in Candoni town, where two caliber .38 revolvers with ammunition and P80,000 worth of suspected shabu were recovered. | GB
