6 suspected drug pushers fall in Quezon buy-busts

LUCENA CITY — At least six suspected “shabu” (crystal meth) peddlers were arrested in buy-bust operations in Lucena City, Candelaria and Lucban towns on Friday.

Colonel Audie Madrideo, Quezon police chief, in a report identified the suspects as Christian Paul Villabrosa, Mark Jefferson Cosejo, Ruben Santos, Mark Anthony Antenor, Russian Montenegro, and his younger brother Joseph.

Anti-illegal drugs operatives nabbed Santos and Antenor after they sold a plastic sachet of shabu to a police-poseur buyer in Barangay 9 in Lucena City at 7:55 p.m.

Authorities seized four sachets of shabu weighing 1.96 grams worth P10,878 in the street market at the prevailing price of P5,550 per gram.

In Lucban, policemen collared Villabroza and Cosejo in a drug sting in Barangay 5 at 4:20 p.m. Police seized two sachets of shabu worth P1,000.

In Candelaria, police collared the Montenegro siblings after they sold shabu to an undercover police officer and informant in Barangay Malabanban Norte around 8 a.m. The suspects yielded two sachets of shabu worth P3,672.

The police report tagged Cosejo and Rusian Montenegro as former detainees on drug charges, who regained their freedom from plea bargaining agreements with the court./lzb