LUCENA CITY – Police arrested three drug suspects in buy-bust operations in Quezon, Rizal and Cavite on Easter Sunday, April 17.
Police Lieutenant Colonel Reynaldo Reyes, Lucena City police chief, said anti-illegal drugs operatives collared Marck Denzel Mercado after he allegedly sold P500 worth of shabu (crystal meth) to a poseur buyer in Barangay (village) Ibabang Iyam around 12:35 a.m.
Mercado yielded four plastic sachets of meth with a street value of P24,400.
The Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) police reported that in Antipolo City, Rizal, police officers busted John Paul Arogante in another drug sting.
Authorities seized 19 sachets of shabu from the suspect with an estimated street value of P34,000.
Another suspect, John Lery Zapanta, was nabbed at 1 a.m. by anti-narcotics agents in General Trias City, Cavite with three sachets of meth in his possession.
Authorities also discovered that Zapanta was carrying an undocumented .9mm caliber pistol, two magazines and six bullets.
The three suspects were detained and will face a formal complaint in violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
Zapanta will also be charged with illegal possession of a firearm and violations of the election gun ban.