2 ‘notorious’ drug suspects collared in Quezon

Packets of shabu. CONTRIBUTED FILE PHOTO / PNP

LUCENA CITY, Quezon – Police have arrested two suspected drug pushers in Calauag and Lucban towns in Quezon province in renewed operations against drug traffickers.

Senior Supt. Rhoderick Armamento, Quezon police provincial director, said operatives from the newly created local police drug units nabbed Aurelio Era alias “Aweng”, 40, in Calauag and Eric Balmeo, alias “Borex,” 33, in Lucban on Tuesday.

Police said Era was collared in a buy-bust operation in Barangay (village) Sabang Dos around 10:30 p.m. Police seized three small plastic sachets of “shabu” (methamphetamine hydrochloride) worth P1,000 and the marked money used in the operation.

Chief Insp. Michael Encio, Calauag police chief, tagged Era as a notorious drug pusher in the locality.

“He is known to all local drug users. We’ve long been targeting him,” he said in a phone interview.

In Lucban, suspect Balmeo was arrested in another buy-bust operation in Barangay Ayuti around 6:10 p.m.

The suspect yielded five plastic sachets of shabu worth P1,500, marked money and a mobile phone which might have records of his drug transactions, police said.  SFM/rga