3 drug suspects busted in Lucena City

Marijuana worth P498,000 seized in Lucena City

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LUCENA CITY – An alleged notorious drug pusher on the police watch list and his two female associates were arrested here early Wednesday, November 2, and yielded over P38,000 worth of shabu (crystal meth), police said.

Lieutenant Colonel Reynaldo Reyes, Lucena police chief, said in a report that Jobert Avila, 41; Honielyn Abdon, 25; and her younger sister Honie Grace, 21, were collared after they sold P500 worth of shabu to a police agent in Barangay (village) 8 at 6 a.m.

Authorities confiscated six plastic sachets of shabu for distribution to drug users weighing 5.6 grams with an estimated Dangerous Drugs Board value of P38,640.

Police tagged Avila as one of the identified distributors of illegal drugs in the city and the Abdon sisters as two of his pushers.

The suspects were detained and are facing charges for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

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