Cops nab 3 in Quezon anti-drug operations | Inquirer News

Cops nab 3 in Quezon anti-drug operations

By: - Correspondent / @dtmallarijrINQ
/ 11:13 AM December 18, 2016

Police in Valencia, Bohol, have arrested a village councilman after the official allegedly sold P500 worth of shabu to an undercover agent. The undated file photo shows a policeman holding a packet of shabu, technically called methamphetamine hydrochloride, seized during another earlier drug bust. INQUIRER FILES

Shabu. INQUIRER FILES

LUCENA CITY – Police arrested two suspected drug pushers and another person using the illegal substance in this city on Saturday, police said Sunday.

Supt. Dennis de Leon, Lucena police chief, said anti-drug operatives led by Senior Insp. Rodolfo Borromeo nabbed Melvin Lambino, 38, a known drug trafficker in Barangay (village) 8 in a buy-bust at 3:30 p.m. Lawmen seized five small plastics of “shabu” weighing 3.85 grams worth P7,100, one small plastic of marijuana, digital weighing scale and drug paraphernalia.

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Another anti-drug operation caught Joseph Merillo, 43, and Aristotle Arriola, 40, in a pot session inside Merillo’s house in the same village. Merillo was also tagged by police as a suspected drug peddler in the area.

Police seized three small plastics of shabu weighing .75 gram worth P1,400 from Merillo. CBB/rga

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