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LUCENA CITY — Police seized shabu (crystal meth) worth P616,000 and two illegal firearms from four alleged traffickers in separate operations on Thursday in Laguna province.
The Region 4A police said in a report on Friday that operatives in Lumban town arrested “Joven,” “Virgilio,” and “Maria” at 7:10 p.m. in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Segunada Parang.
Confiscated from the suspects were 80 grams of shabu worth about P544,000 as per the valuation of the Dangerous Drugs Board and an undocumented caliber .38 revolver loaded with three bullets.
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Police tagged Joven as a HVI or high-value individual in the local drug trade. HVI refers to financiers, traffickers, manufacturers, and importers of illegal drugs or leaders/members of drug groups.
Virgilo and Maria are identified as street-level drug pushers on the police watch list.
In Victoria town, members of the local drug enforcement unit arrested “John” in a sting operation in Barangay San Roque around 11:30 p.m.
The suspect, also an HVI, was caught with P72,000 worth of shabu and an illegal caliber .38 revolver with five bullets.
The cops also found him carrying a digital weighing scale for his illegal drug trade.
Police are now tracking the source of the illegal drugs being distributed by the suspects.
All the persons arrested are detained and facing criminal charges.