3 pushers arrested in Nueva Ecija

CABANATUAN CITY—Separate police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) operations led to the arrest of three suspected pushers in Nueva Ecija province on Saturday (June 15).

Five sachets of shabu, or crystal neth, were seized.

Mark Francis Bondoc, 21, was arrested after he sold a sachet of shabu to an undercover policeman at 9:30 a.m. at Cuyapo village, San Antonio town.

On Saturday night, Mark Alvin Mangaoang, 34, was detained after a sting operation in Palayan City, while Junie Larioza, 36, sold shabu to policemen in Zaragoza town, according to Police Col. Leon Victor Rosete, chief of the Nueva Ecija police office.

Mangaoang and Larioza each had two sachets of shabu when they were arrested. ARMAND GALANG (Editor: Tony Bergonia)