Alleged drug pusher nabbed in Lucena buy bust

LUCENA CITY – Police arrested a suspected drug pusher here in a buy-bust operation on Tuesday, police said Wednesday.

Senior Supt. Rhoderick Armamento, Quezon police provincial director, said operatives from the provincial drug enforcement unit and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) nabbed George Cielos, alias “Ogie,” after he sold a sachet of “shabu” (methamphetamine hydrochloride) to an undercover cop in Barangay (village) Ibabang Dupay at about 8:30 p.m.

The suspect yielded 10 sachets of shabu worth P55,500 in the street market.

Police said the suspect belongs to a group of newly recruited distributors of “shabu” in Ibabang Dupay and nearby villages. CBB