2 drug pushers fall in Lucena buy-bust

LUCENA CITY – Two notorious drug pushers were arrested by the police in a buy-bust operation here shortly before midnight Monday, police said.

A drug enforcement unit arrested Rommell Aldovino and Ericacio Sebuc after they sold shabu (crystal meth) to a police officer acting as a drug user in Barangay Market View around 11:45 p.m., said a report from Supt. Romulo Albacea, Lucena police chief.

The suspects yielded eight sachets of shabu weighing a total of seven grams worth P35,000 in the street market.

Police said former drug users who recently surrendered to the authorities pointed to the suspects as among the remaining peddlers of shabu in the village.

The suspects were detained at the city police jail. DELFIN T. MALLARI JR.

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