Drug suspect slain, 3 nabbed in Camarines Sur buy-busts

LEGAZPI CITY –– A suspected illegal drug pusher was killed, while three others were arrested in separate buy-bust operations in Camarines Sur on Monday night.

Police Colonel Roderico Roy Jr., Camarines Sur cop chief, said Vicente Imperial died after a buy-bust operation that led to an armed confrontation in Barangay Del Carmen, San Jose town around 10 p.m.

Anti-narcotics operatives seized a sachet of shabu (crystal meth) worth P1,000 from Imperial.

In Nabua town, Orestes Follosco Jr., 40, was arrested in a separate buy-bust operation in Barangay Sta. Barbara at 10:20 p.m.

Authorities recovered nine sachets of suspected shabu from Follosco.

In Naga City, lawmen arrested Paul Alarcos, 18, in a separate buy-bust operation in Barangay Peñafrancia at 7:45 p.m.

Police Master Sergeant Tobias Bongon, Naga City police spokesperson, said authorities seized a sachet or 50 grams of shabu worth P340,000 from Alarcos.

At 9:20 p.m., Rodel Bontoyan, 28; Kathy Parcedes, 20; and Rommel Vasquez, 37, were also arrested in a separate buy-bust operation in Barangay Balatas, Bongon said.

Imperial, Follosco, and Alarcos were in the illegal drugs watch list.

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