LUCENA CITY –– Police arrested three drug suspects, two of them listed beneficiaries of the government’s emergency cash aid under the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) to cope with the COVID-19 crisis, in a buy-bust here Friday morning.
Lieutenant Colonel Romulo Albacea, Lucena police chief, reported that the suspects, Wendell Arguinoso, Jun Cendaña, and Alixis Marquez, were collared after they sold shabu (crystal meth) to a police agent in Barangay Ibabang Dupay around 10 a.m.
Authorities seized 20 plastic sachets of meth weighing 10.36 grams with estimated Dangerous Drugs Board value of P70,448.
Cendaña and Marquez were reportedly included on the list of SAP beneficiaries.
Police said Arguinoso and Marquez were previously involved in a drug case.
The suspects are facing charges for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.