Notorious ‘shabu’ peddler fall in Lucena buy-bust
LUCENA CITY –– Police arrested a suspected drug pusher in a buy-bust operation here early Thursday.
Anti-illegal drugs operatives collared Francis Ferreras, 22, after he sold “shabu” (crystal meth) to an undercover police officer in a transaction in Barangay Cotta around 2:30 a.m.
The suspect, tagged by the police as a notorious shabu peddler in the village, yielded a cigarette pack containing five plastic sachets of shabu weighing 27 grams with an estimated Dangerous Drugs Board value of P49,950.
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The confiscated illegal drugs are worth P148,500 in the street market at P5,500 per gram.
Police said the suspect was a former detainee on drug charges who regained his freedom on plea bargaining agreement with the court in July last year.
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