P340,000 shabu seized in Masbate buy-bust

shabu (crystal meth) seized in Masbate

Bags of shabu (crystal meth) | INQUIRER.net stock photo

LEGAZPI CITY – Anti-narcotics operatives arrested two drug personalities and seized P340,000 worth of shabu (crystal meth) in a buy-bust operation in Balud town in Masbate on Saturday morning.

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Masbate said in a report that Jyrel Dela Cruz and his live-in partner Delia Banyez were arrested in Barangay (village) Tunga at around 6:40 a.m.

Authorities recovered 50 grams of shabu, P500 marked money, a cloth bag containing five blasting caps and a plastic bag containing five kilograms of suspected ammonium nitrate, a component in making explosives.

PDEA Masbate said Dela Cruz was a drug surrenderer during the height of the anti-illegal drugs campaign of the government.

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