Boy arrested for selling ‘shabu’

Police arrested a 15-year-old boy in a drug buy-bust operation in barangay Labogon, Mandaue City.

Police said the boy sold a pack of suspected shabu worth P200 to a poseur-buyer around 4 p.m. Sunday.

Three packs of suspected shabu were seized from the boy’s possession, police said.

Senior Insp. Wilson Abot, chief of the Basak Police Station, said the boy learned selling illegal drugs through his two uncles.

One of the uncles is currently detained for drug charges while the other is in hiding after he was accused of killing a former boxer, Abot said.

A charge for selling illegal drugs was filed against the boy yesterday morning before the Mandaue City Prosecutors’ Office.

Police turned the boy over to the City Social Welfare Service Office (CSWS). He was later returned to the police station for detention since the CSWS facility is filled capacity with youth offenders.

In a separate incident, police caught a man allegedly repacking suspected shabu while they were serving an arrest warrant against a drug suspect in barangay Tayud, Consolacion town, northern Cebu.

Neighbors Eddie Sabroso and Oliver Lawas were arrested Monday night.

Operatives of the Casuntingan police, led by station chief Senior Insp. Ramil Morpos, said they went to sitio Tawagan to serve an arrest warrant against Lawas, who was charged for possession of illegal drugs.

The warrant was issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Alma Singco of Branch 55.

Morpos said Lawas was not in his rented apartment when they arrived.

Morpos said they walked toward the nearby apartment and saw Sabroso packing white crystalline substance believed to be shabu while Lawas was watching him.

Morpos said the two men tried to evade arrest but were eventually cornered.

Police said 15 grams of suspected shabu worth close to P100,000 were recovered from the house. Some of the drugs fell to the floor when the two tried to escape.