4 drug pushers nabbed in Ligao City

LEGAZPI CITY –– Four suspected drug pushers were arrested in simultaneous anti-drug operations in Ligao City on Wednesday.

Christian Frivaldo, acting director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Bicol, said the drug operations yielded a total of 45 grams of shabu (crystal meth) worth P306,000.

Cotton Talento, PDEA spokesperson, said agents armed with search warrants, arrested Rolly Flor alias Mhong and seized from him nine sachets of shabu weighing 15 grams with a street value of P102,000 in Barangay Tuburan at 6:20 a.m.

In the same village, another team of drug operatives swooped down on the house of Nixon Bangate and seized nine sachets of shabu weighing 10 grams worth P68,000 at 6:34 a.m.

Another drug suspect, Nelson Federico alias Watso, was arrested in Barangay Calzada at 6:20 a.m. Recovered from Federico were four shabu sachets weighing 10 grams worth P68,000.

PDEA agents also arrested Reynaldo Moises alias Oto and seized from his possession were 10 grams of shabu packed in five plastic sachets worth P68,000. Mar S. Arguelles /lzb

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