Batangas police operation nets 4 people in ‘drug den’

In Batangas province, police anti-narcotics operatives dismantle on Friday, October 11, 2024, an alleged drug den and arrested four suspects in Padre Garcia town. A report by the Regional Police 4A on Saturday disclosed that the suspects who were identified by their aliases as “Harold”, “Arman”, “Raffy”, and “Kenrick” were arrested during a buy-bust operation in a suspected drug den in Barangay Bawi. INQUIRER FILES

LUCENA CITY — Police anti-narcotics operatives dismantled on Friday, October 11, an alleged drug den and arrested four suspects in Padre Garcia town in Batangas province.

A report by the Regional Police 4A on Saturday, October 12, disclosed that the suspects who were identified by their aliases as “Harold”, “Arman”, “Raffy”, and “Kenrick” were arrested around 6:31 p.m., during a buy-bust operation in a suspected drug den in Barangay (village) Bawi.

The report said Harold, the alleged den maintainer, supposedly sold a pack of a shabu (crystal meth) to a poseur buyer in a transaction held in a shack owned by the suspect.

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The operatives caught the three other suspects inside the shack sniffing shabu, police said.

Police seized three plastic sachets containing shabu worth P171,700 and drug-sniffing paraphernalia from the suspects.

The suspects were detained, and cases of violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 are being prepared against them.