5 arrested in Bataan drug bust
ORION, Bataan- Five people, including a jobless woman, were arrested by the Orion police after a buy-bust operation conducted at an undisclosed remote village here on Wednesday night.
The arrest of the suspects was undertaken after a week-long surveillance of the barangay where the rampant sale of shabu (crystal methamphetamine) had been going on, police said.
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Authorities are set to conduct more operations are set to be conducted in the adjacent barangay where the five suspects were arrested.
Seized during the operation were 19.38 grams of shabu with a street value of P131,784 and the marked money used by police agents belonging to the Orion police drug enforcement unit.
The suspects are now detained at the Orion police custodial facility and are facing charges for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002./coa
