LUCENA CITY –– Two notorious drug pushers from this city were arrested in Candelaria town in Quezon province on Wednesday afternoon, police said Thursday.
Rodelio Bañas and his cohort, Melanie Virrey, both residents of Lucena City, were arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Masin Norte around 4 p.m., a Quezon police report said.
Bañas, accompanied by Virrey, was the one who sold “shabu” (crystal meth) to an undercover police officer.
Four plastic sachets of shabu worth P61,900 in the local street market were seized.
Police tagged Bañas as a former detainee on drug pushing charges but was released following a plea-bargaining agreement with the court. The duo were both in the list of local street-level drug pushers.
The suspects were detained at the police jail in Candelaria and are facing charges of violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.