Drug suspect busted in Lucena City, P1.1 M shabu seized

LUCENA CITY – Police seized over P1.1 million worth of shabu (crystal meth) from a “high value” trafficker in a buy-bust operation here on Friday.

Lieutenant Colonel Dennis de Guzman, Lucena City police chief, said in a report on Saturday  that an alias “Ali,” 27, was collared by anti-illegal drugs operatives after he sold P3,000 worth of shabu to an undercover agent in Barangay (village) Isabang at around 4:15 p.m.

Seven plastic sachets and one plastic bag containing shabu weighing 58 grams with an estimated street value of P1,183,200 in the

The suspect was detained and is facing a formal complaint for violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.