2 brothers nabbed in Lucena buy-bust

LUCENA CITY – Police arrested two brothers in a drug operation here Friday night, police said.

The local police drug enforcement unit arrested Danilo Gomez and his younger sibling, Dante, in a buy-bust operation in Barangay (village) Barra at 9:55 p.m., Supt. Reyndante Ariza, Lucena police chief, said in a report.

Danilo was the first to fall after he sold “shabu” (crystal meth) to an undercover police officer while Dante was caught with drug paraphernalia while in the act of preparing to sniff the illegal substance.

Authorities recovered two sachets containing less than one gram of shabu. Delfin T. Mallari Jr./lzb