Batangas City cops seize P448,000 ‘shabu’ from 3 suspects
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LUCENA CITY — Police anti-narcotics operatives nabbed three suspected drug traders and seized more than P448,000 worth of “shabu” (crystal meth) in separate buy-bust operations on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 23 and 24, in Batangas City.
The Batangas police said in a report that operatives from Batangas City collared at 12:40 a.m. Wednesday, Jennifer Lopez, 50, after she sold P100,000 worth of shabu to a poseur buyer in Barangay Libjo.
Lopez, classified as a “high-value” target in the government’s drug war, yielded two big sachets of meth weighing 50 grams worth about P340,000.
Earlier, the same team of drug enforcers arrested Jet Marten Macatangay, 24, and Romiel Delos Santos, 22, in another sting in Barangay Cuta.
The suspects, both identified pushers on the police watch list, were found in possession of seven sachets of shabu worth P108,780.
The operatives also confiscated a mobile phone from the arrested suspects, which contained records of their supposed drug transactions.
Batangas City police were tracking the source of the illegal drugs.
The suspects are under police custody and face charges of violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. INQ
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