Bohol drug peddler camped out in pension homes

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol — Police arrested on Sunday dawn a drug suspect who sold P500 worth of shabu to a police poseur-buyer from a pension house room.

Ronald “Butchoy” Capuno Taer, 34, was arrested for possession of P25, 000 worth of shabu and drug paraphernalia, said PO3 Richard Timbal of the Provincial Public Safety Company of the Bohol Provincial Police Office.

Timbal said Taer was on the police watchlist.

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He said Taer was among the drug peddlers in the city who rented rooms in pension houses, hotels and resorts to sell drugs.

Timbal said police raided Taer’s pension house room about 3 a.m. on Sunday after they received information on his illegal drugs activity.

He occupied a room in a pension house along Miguel Parras Street in Tagbilaran City located about a kilometer away from his residence in Barangay Poblacion 1, during his arrest.

Police confiscated a big pack of shabu estimated to cost P25,000, the P500 marked money, and drug paraphernalia from Taer’s pension house room.

Timbal said they were preparing a complaint for the possession and distribution of illegal drugs and the possession of drug paraphernalia against the suspect.