LUCENA CITY, QUEZON– Police arrested four drug suspects in separate anti-illegal drug buy-busts in a village in Lucena City on Monday, police said Tuesday.
Lucena police and anti-illegal drug operatives led by Senior Insp. Rodolfo Borromeo nabbed Paterno Causapin, 56, and his son Reggie, 32, after the two sold “shabu” (methamphetamine hydrochloride) to a police agent in Barangay (village) Cotta at about 2:30 p.m.
Aside from the recovered shabu weighing 2.62 grams worth P4,900, police also seized one caliber .45 Colt pistol with one magazine and several ammunition and two mobile phones containing records of drug transactions.
An hour earlier, the same police team also conducted a buy-bust operation in another part of the village and arrested Yusuf Gerundio alias “Boy Muslim”, 37 and his associate Harrieth Noel Oreste, 32, both alleged peddlers of shabu in the barangay. Police seized from the suspects several plastic sachets of shabu, drug paraphernalia, a caliber .38 revolver with bullets and one improvised “sumpak” (improvised shotgun) with bullets.
“We will conduct further investigation on the information that the suspects were also engaged in robbery and gun-for-hire activities,” said Supt. Dennis de Leon, Lucena police chief./rga
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