5 drug pushers nabbed in Quezon drug busts

LUCENA CITY, Philippines  – Authorities arrested five alleged notorious drug pushers and seized about P226,000 worth of “shabu” (crystal meth) in a series of buy-bust operations in Lucena City and Tayabas City in Quezon province on Friday, police said Saturday.

Anti-illegal drugs operatives arrested Angelo Eubanas, 39, after he sold shabu to an undercover police officer who posed as the buyer inside a subdivision in Barangay (village) Gulang-Gulang in Lucena City around 1:15 p.m., Colonel Ramil Montilla, Quezon police chief, said in a report Saturday.

Eubanas, said police, yielded four plastic sachets containing shabu weighing 14.7 grams.

Police also nabbed Meynard Flancia 33, and Albino Revilla, 43, in another drug sting operation in Barangay Ibabang Iyam here early in the morning. The suspects yielded six plastic sachets of shabu weighing a total of 7.58 grams.

Meawhile in Tayabas City, authorities arrested Julius Ryan Satin, 32, and his companion Donnie de Castro, 42, after they sold shabu to an undercover police officer in an operation in Barangay Isabang around 7:45 a.m. The suspects yielded six plastic sachets of shabu weighing 18.5 grams.

The seized drugs weighed a total of 40.78 grams and are valued at P224,290 in the streets at the prevailing rate P5,500 per gram, police said.  (Editor: Mike U. Frialde)