Cops nab 3 in Quezon anti-drug operations

LUCENA CITY, Quezon, Philippines – Police arrested three suspected drug pushers in Quezon province in two separate operations on Monday and Tuesday, police said.

Senior Supt. Rhoderick Armamento, Quezon police director, said an anti-drug police unit nabbed Mark Sadsad, 23, and Annie Fernandez, 35, in a drug buy-bust in Barangay (village) Santa Catalina Sur in Candelaria town around 1:00 a.m. Tuesday. Sadsad was tagged as a member of the Belano drug group operating in Candelaria and nearby towns while Fernandez was listed as number two in the local police drug watch list.

Seized from them were three small plastics of “shabu” (methamphetamine hydrochloride) weighing 1.33 grams worth P2,500.

Lucena policemen also arrested Virgilio Dayao, 56, in another buy-bust operation in Barangay Market View shortly before midnight Monday. The lawmen seized three small plastics of shabu weighing 2.49 grams worth P4,600, a digital weighing scale and other drug peddling paraphernalia.

The suspect, who was on the drug watch list, was identified as one of the suppliers of shabu to drug users in the village./rga

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