ORMOC CITY – A 35-year-old carpenter was arrested in a buy-bust operation by the Station Drug Enforcement Team (SDET) of Police Station 3, Ormoc City Police Office, on Friday night, August 29, at JICA Village, Barangay Lao.
Police identified the suspect as alias “Maki,” single, and a resident of the said barangay. He is listed as a street-level individual in the station’s drug watchlist.
Confiscated from him were five sachets of suspected shabu weighing about 0.40 gram, with an estimated street value of P2,720. Also recovered was a P500 marked bill used in the operation.
The suspect, now detained at the Police Station 3 lock-up cell in Barangay Liloan, faces charges for violating RA 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
(ROBERT DEJON)
