Lucena cops arrest suspected drug pusher

LUCENA CITY –– Police arrested a “lumpia” wrapper maker who also allegedly sells “shabu” (crystal meth) in a buy-bust operation here on Monday, police said.

Gliserio Rengconada, 28, was collared after he sold shabu to an undercover police officer in Barangay Ibabang Dupay at 8:10 p.m.

The suspect yielded four plastic sachets of shabu weighing 3.76 grams worth P20,680 in the street market at P5,500 per gram.

The illegal activity of the suspect, who uses his lumpia wrapper production work as a front, was tipped off by villagers and reformed drug users through the police hotline numbers. Delfin T. Mallari Jr. /lzb