Couple nabbed in Quezon buy-bust
LUCENA CITY-A couple on the local drug watch list, was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Infanta town in Quezon province on Thursday night, police said Friday.
Quezon police director Senior Supt. Rhoderick Armamento said Jay-R Coralde, 31, and his spouse, Emeryn, 34, were collared by drug enforcement unit members after the two sold a sachet of shabu or crystal meth to an undercover policeman in Barangay Comon around 9:40 p.m.
Seized from the couple were three sachets of shabu worth P925 and the P500 marked money used in the illegal drug transaction.
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Chief Inspector Lowell Atienza said the Coralde couple was number seven in the local drug watch list.
“They were newly identified drug pushers in the village,” Atienza said in a phone interview.
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