Over P2M shabu seized in Camarines Sur buy-busts

By: Ma. April Mier-Manjares @MaAprilMierINQ - 10 months ago

2 Drug suspects arrested Naga City

LEGAZPI CITY — Police seized P2 million worth of “shabu” (crystal meth) and arrested drug personalities on Tuesday and Wednesday in Naga City and Pili town in Camarines Sur.

Anti-narcotics team arrested a suspected drug personality and recovered P374,000 worth of shabu in a buy-bust operation early Wednesday, Feb. 7, in Naga City.

Senior Master Sargent Tobias Bongon, Naga City police spokesperson, said the unnamed 35-year-old man sold 25 grams of shabu to an undercover agent in Barangay Sabang at 1:40 a.m.

Bongon said they also recovered another knot-tied sachet of shabu weighing 30 grams from the suspect tagged as a high-value individual.

The suspect was facing charges of violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

Police are investigating the suspect’s source of the illegal drugs.

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In Pili town, police arrested on Tuesday, Feb. 6, a “high-value drug personality” and recovered more than P1.8 million worth of shabu in a buy-bust operation, a report said Wednesday.

Lieutenant Colonel Joffrey Todeño, Pili town police chief, said in the report that Anthony Azada, 38, sold a knot-tied sachet of suspected shabu worth P150,000 in Barangay Sagurong at around 9:30 p.m.

Authorities recovered 275 grams of shabu and two sachets of marijuana leaves worth P240 from Azada, who was on the illegal drugs watch list.

Azada was facing charges of violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

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