Suspected drug peddler arrested in Iloilo | Inquirer News

Suspected drug peddler arrested in Iloilo

/ 11:35 AM December 01, 2015

ILOILO CITY—Police operatives arrested an alleged drug pusher in a buy-bust operation in his house in Zone 5, Barangay (village) Tacas in Jaro district, Iloilo City about 4 a.m. on Tuesday.

 
Seized from Arnold Sumagaysay, 40, were 66 sachets of suspected “shabu” (methamphetamine hydrochloride) with street value of P20,000, marked money worth P600, a homemade shotgun, five magazines of M16 armalite riffle and six live ammunitions of caliber 357.

 
Senior Insp. Christopher Rodriguez of Iloilo City Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Force (CAIDSOTF) described Sumagaysay as “a notorious (drug) personality” who sourced the shabu from Metro Manila and sold these in Jaro.

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“The subject was also involved in a robbery hold-up two weeks ago in one of the subdivisions here,” said Rodriguez.

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Authorities were still verifying if Sumagaysay had pending warrants of arrest.

 
Sumagaysay was convicted in a murder case in 1997 but was freed on parole.

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