A Chinese-Filipino national was arrested after he reportedly tried to sell methamphetamine hydrochloride, or “shabu,” to an undercover police operative at a gas station in Quezon City on Easter Sunday.
Seized from Johnson Sy, 42, were 48 grams of the drug worth around P180,000.
Senior Insp. Roberto Razon of the Quezon City Police District’s Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group said the Fil-Chinese was believed to be member of a drug syndicate operating in Binondo, Manila.
A native of Xiamen, China, who now lives in San Juan City, Sy was arrested based on the information given by other members of the drug group who had been arrested by authorities.
A Chinese-speaking informant contacted Sy and put him in touch with the buyer who was an undercover policewoman.
After the two reached a deal, they agreed to meet at a gas station at the corner of Aurora Boulevard and Broadway Avenue in Quezon City at 3 p.m. on Sunday.
After Sy arrived at the agreed upon meeting place, he was arrested when he gave the drugs to the undercover policewoman who gave him four marked P1,000 bills and newspaper cutouts in the form and size of peso bills.