Policemen and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency operatives seized more than half a kilo of suspected shabu, with a market value of about P5.6 million, from three drug suspects arrested during the weekend.
An estimated 675 grams of suspected shabu, with a market value of P4,590,000, were recovered by operatives of the Bacolod City Drug Enforcement Unit during a buy-bust operation Sept. 24 in Purok Riverside, Brgy. Bata, Bacolod City.
P/Lt. Liberty Indiape, deputy spokesperson of the Bacolod City Police Office, said the anti-drug operation also led to the arrest of Erwin Belonio, alias Boy, and Anthony Solon, both categorized by the police as high value individuals in the illegal drug trade.
Also recovered by the police were P3,000 in marked money.
The next day, the PDEA in Negros Occidental foiled another attempt to smuggle P1 million worth of suspected shabu to Iloilo, through the Bredco Port, in Brgy. 10, Bacolod.
Rhemon Dumancas, 36, of Brgy. Patlag, Dumangas in Iloilo, was intercepted and arrested by PDEA, in tandem with Police Station 2, Coast Guard personnel, PNP Maritime Command, the Special Operations Group of Police Regional Office 6, and the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office.
The arrest of Dumancas yielded about 150 grams of suspected shabu, with a market value of P1,020,000, police records showed./GB
