6 alleged ‘shabu’ peddlers fall in Quezon drug busts

6 alleged 'shabu' peddlers fall in Quezon

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LUCENA CITY – Police arrested six suspected street-level drug pushers following several anti-illegal drug operations conducted in different parts of Quezon province on Friday, police said Saturday.

The suspects were identified as Orly Sto. Domingo, 33; Paulo Rodel, 27; Jinno Ilagan, 23; Raffy Destajo, 18; Jayson Claveria, 22; and Dai Ann Buhay, 24, Quezon police chief Colonel Audie Madrideo, said in a report.

Sto. Domingo was nabbed after a police team armed with search warrant raided his house in Barangay (village) Maunlad in Gumaca town. Authorities seized from him eight plastic sachets of shabu (crystal meth) worth P1,000 in the street market.

Rodel and Ilagan were collared in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Lalig in Tiaong town. The duo yielded five sachets of shabu worth P9,400.

Policemen arrested Destajo in another operation after he sold P500 worth of shabu to a police agent in Barangay Daungan in Mauban town.

Anti-illegal drugs operatives busted Claveria and Buhay in another drug sting in Barangay 10 in Lucena City. Police seized three sachets of shabu worth P5,500. /jpv

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