2 drug pushers fall in Marikina buy-bust

Anti-drug operatives have arrested two suspected drug traffickers in an entrapment operation in Marikina City on Wednesday night.

According to a police report, members of the Station Drug Enforcement Unit of the Marikina City Police Station arrested Carl James Buena and Ronnie Alcantara in a buy-bust operation at around 6:40 p.m. along Talong St. in Barangay Tumana.

Authorities recovered six pieces of transparent plastic sachets containing white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu and the P1000 marked bill used in the bust.

The suspects were taken to the Eastern Police District Crime Laboratory for drug testing and laboratory examination of the recovered evidence.     /muf