OLONGAPO CITY — Police arrested on Wednesday afternoon the most wanted drug suspect in the province during a buy-bust operation in the capital town of Iba in Zambales.
Reports reaching the Zambales Police Provincial Office (ZPPO) said Lewis Wetzel Wellman, 28, a resident of Cabangan town in Zambales, was arrested in Barangay (village) Palanginan, in Iba town at 2:45 p.m.
PO2 Gerson Sotelo, investigator at the ZPPO, said the suspect was at the top on the province’s drug watch list.
Confiscated from the suspect were seven sachets containing alleged shabu (metamphetamine hydrochloride) and marked money.
The suspect is facing charges for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Act of 2002. SFM
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