The suspects (from left): Felipe Lusterio Jr., Edwin Bague, and Bryan Adlaon Sumampong. (Photo by LEO UDTOHAN / Inquirer Visayas)
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol — Three suspected drug pushers, one of them a college student, were arrested in a buy-bust operation in this city on Monday night.
But the suspects denied being involved in illegal drugs.
They were identified as Bryan Adlaon Sumampong, 21, of Batuan town; Felipe Lusterio Jr., 37, of Panglao town; and Edwin Bague, 38, of Calape town.
“We don’t get ourselves involved in drugs,” Lusterio said.
Sumampong, a college student, also denied peddling drugs, although the police claimed he was a new player who could dispose of 250 grams of shabu per week and whose clients were mostly students.
According to police, Sumampong arrived at Getafe pier in Bohol from Cordova town in Cebu about 2 p.m. on Monday.
He was fetched by Lusterio and Bague.
From Getafe they took a V-hire to Tagbilaran and sold shabu worth P100,000 to an undercover agent on Alfonso Uy Street beside the Integrated Bus Terminal in the city at about 7:30 p.m.
After the transaction, the three suspects were arrested by the police.
Seized from Sumampong was one extra large pack of suspected crystal meth, or shabu, and two large packs were each recovered from Lusterio and Bague.
The suspected illegal drugs have an estimated worth of P850,000. /atm