Police applicant nabbed for drugs
A28-year-old man who once tried to join the police force was arrested in a drug buy-bust operation in barangay Pasil, Cebu City.
Dennis Evalle, 28, will be charged with possession and selling of illegal drugs after he sold a pack of suspected shabu for P300 to a poseur-buyer, said the police.
When he was frisked, nine sachets believed to contain shabu were recovered from his possesion.
Evalle, a criminology graduate, applied for the Philippine National Police (PNP) but was not accepted after a background investigation was made, said Chief Insp. Romeo Santander, intelligence chief of the Cebu City Police Office.
Santander said the routine check uncovered Evalle’s alleged involvement in the drug trade.
Police continued to receive reports from Evalle’s neighbors that Evalle was selling illegal drugs until a buy-bust operation was made last Monday night.
Evalle refused to comment on his arrest.
In Mandaue City, another man was arrested in a buy-bust operation.
Diolito Commendador, 45, a native of Sogod town residing in Mandaue, was arrested after he allegedly sold two sachets of suspected shabu for P400 to a policeman who acted as buyer.
Comendador denied he was selling of illegal drugs.
He said a friend just asked him to hand over the packs of suspected drugs to a buyer. /WITH CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MENDOZA
