Cops nab new player in Lucena drug trade
LUCENA CITY—Police arrested a suspected pusher in a buy-bust operation here on Friday (Sept. 24), describing the arrested man as a new player in the illegal drug trade.
Lt. Col. Romulo Albacea, Lucena police chief, said in a report that anti-drug operatives arrested Mark Anthony Pontiveros, 29, after he sold a pack of shabu, or crystal meth, to an undercover agent at the village of Cotta past 1 p.m.
Authorities seized from Pontiveros five packs of meth worth P32,640, the report said
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Police said rehabilitated drug users in the village tipped off police about Pontiveros’s drug trade which led to his arrest.
Pontiveros is now detained at the city police jail.
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