2 women fall in Marikina drug sting

Policemen have arrested two women in a drug buy-bust operation in Marikina City.

Members of Marikina City Drug Enforcement Unit collared Jaquelene de Guzman, 38; and Ruby Rose Tolentino, 27, in an operation along Ampalaya St., Barangay Tumana at around 5 p.m. Monday.

Authorities recovered five pieces of plastic transparent sachets containing methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu), and the P500-bill used in the operation from the suspects.

De Guzman and Tolentino were subsequently brought to the Eastern Police District Crime Laboratory for a drug test.        /kga