LUCENA CITY — Police arrested a man who has already been convicted for drug charges in the past in a buy-bust operation here early Monday.
Ryan Secretaria, 38, was collared by anti-illegal drugs operatives after he sold shabu (crystal meth) to a police agent in a transaction in Barangay Dalahican around 6:39 a.m., Lieutenant Colonel Romulo Albacea, Lucena police chief, reported.
Authorities seized five plastic sachets of shabu worth P31,620 in the street market.
Police tagged Cunanan as a former detainee on drug pushing charges and included on the drug watch list.
The suspect was identified by rehabilitated drug users in the coastal village as one of the main suppliers of shabu to fishermen, dockworkers and other drug users in Dalahican and nearby areas.
Now jailed, the suspect faces charges for violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.