Armed drug pusher busted in Laguna
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LUCENA CITY — A man on a police drug watch list was caught early Saturday, Oct. 5, with an illegal firearm and shabu (crystal meth) in a buy-bust operation in Calauan town in Laguna province.
The Region 4A police reported that anti-illegal drugs operatives arrested “Aljerrau” at 12:15 a.m. after he sold P500 worth of meth to a poseur buyer in in Barangay Sto. Tomas.
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The operatives found the suspect carrying an undocumented caliber .45 gun loaded with seven bullets and four plastic sachets of shabu worth P4,760.
The police tagged Aljerrau as a street-level drug pusher on their watch list.
Article continues after this advertisementThe suspect was placed under police custody and would face charges of violating anti-drug laws and another case for illegal possession of a firearm.
