HAGONOY, Davao del Sur – Police authorities arrested five men during two separate anti-drug operations here.
Senior Insp. Glenn Amsiwen, the acting town police chief, said on Saturday that four of those arrested fell during the buy-bust operation conducted inside a subdivision in Barangay (village) Guihing on Friday.
Amsiwen said siblings Cirilo, 29 and Rechielo Cañada, 36; Marben Macarayo, 32; and Junmar Alpis, 31; yielded a total of 19 sachets of shabu, a caliber .45 pistol, a homemade .38 revolver and ammunition, and digital weighing scale.
Amsiwen said the fifth suspect, Richard Saidain Gomez, 34, a resident of Purok 10, Christian Village, Aplaya, Digos City, was arrested in the second operation, also on Friday. He said the suspect yielded five sachets of shabu.
The arrested suspects were being temporarily held at the police’s holding cell as charges of violation of the Anti-Drug Act were being prepared against them. Those who yielded guns will also be charged with illegal possession of firearms, he said.