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Alleged drug syndicate member, cohort busted in Quezon province

Quezon police operatives arrested four alleged drug pushers and seized more than P271,000 worth of shabu during separate anti-illegal drug operations on February 18.

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LUCENA CITY — Police arrested an alleged member of a drug syndicate and his associate on Monday night and seized more than P174,000 worth of shabu (crystal meth) in a buy-bust operation in Sariaya town in Quezon province.

Anti-narcotics operatives nabbed Elpidio Malarasta, 55, and Mauricio Bautista, 45, after they sold P1,000 worth of shabu to an undercover cop in Barangay Sampaloc 2 at 7:05 p.m., Colonel Ledon Monte, Quezon police chief, said in a report on Tuesday, July 11.

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Authorities confiscated five plastic sachets of meth with a street value of P174,828.

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Police tagged Malarasta as a member of the “Perez drug group” and a “high-value” target in the government’s drug war.

The two suspects are on the drug watch list as drug pushers in the locality, the police said.

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They were detained and are facing charges of violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

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