P165,000 illegal drugs seized from SK official, other suspects in Angeles City
Authorities confiscated these pieces of evidence from three suspects during a police operation on July 5 in Angeles City. (Photo courtesy of Angeles City Police Office)
ANGELES CITY—Police confiscated marijuana and shabu (crystal meth) worth P165,560 and two handguns in separate operations Monday, July 4, and Tuesday, July 5.
In a statement, city police director Col. Diosdado Fabian said cops and city drug enforcers arrested James Wendel Berras, 22, during a buy-bust operation around 7:30 p.m. Monday at Cutcut village.
Fabian said Berras, a Sangguniang Kabataan kagawad (councilor) residing at Agapito Del Rosario village in this city, was arrested after allegedly selling a small plastic bag of marijuana to an undercover policeman.
Police allegedly confiscated from the suspect two more plastic bags of marijuana leaves and fruit toppings, as well as the marked peso bill used in the sting operation.
The three plastic bags of marijuana have a combined weight of one kilogram, with an estimated street value of P120,000.
At 12:40 a.m. on Tuesday, the police arrested three people for allegedly selling a handgun to an undercover cop and for allegedly possessing 6.7 grams of shabu worth P45,650 in Pampang village.
Lt. Roseilyn Vaquilar, city police public information officer, identified the arrested suspects as Aaron Mallari, 33; Aaron Jay Espiritu, 37; and Abigail Malig-Capili, 25.
Vaquilar said the trio had “conspired” to sell a Para Ordnance caliber .45 pistol and a sachet of suspected shabu to an undercover policeman for P15,000.
The police allegedly confiscated from the suspects a caliber .38 revolver loaded with five live bullets, two more sachets of suspected shabu, and two “improvised” vehicle plate numbers (NBE 5385 and CAR 7952).
Vaquilar said the NBE 5385 plate attached to the white Toyota Hi-Lux used by the suspects was the same plate number of a white Toyota Fortuner sports utility vehicle involved in a robbery in Plaridel, Bulacan in the past.
Fabian said the SK kagawad faces charges for violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. The trio also faced the same charges apart from an alleged violation of the Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulation Act.
