ORMOC CITY– Police operatives have recovered an estimated 9.19 grams of suspected shabu with an estimated value of P62, 492 from two high-value individual drug personalities during a buy-bust operation at Gawad Kalinga Village in Barangay Tambulilid, this city, on Jan.25 at about 12:12 noon.
Lt. Richie Selencio, chief of the City Drug Enforcement Unit, identified the arrested suspects as alias “Chard,” 40, single, sales representative, and alias “Joe,” 51, married, construction worker, both residents of said village.
The two suspects are listed as High- Value Individual (HVI) in the drug watchlist of the Ormoc City Police Office.
Target of the operation was alias “Joe,” who was in possession of one sachet containing a white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu procured by an operative in the amount of P5000, weighing 1.22 grams.
During the conduct of a body search done in the presence of law-mandated witnesses, the searching officer recovered a black wallet that contained seven sachets containing white crystalline substance, also suspected to be shabu, with an estimated weight of 3.15 grams with a commercial value of P21,420.
During the body search to alias “Joe,” the searching officer recovered eight sachets containing white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu, having an estimated weight of 4.82 grams with a value of P32,776, placed inside a plastic candy container.
The two suspects admitted to indulging in illegal drugs due to poverty.
The CDEU said that a total of sixteen sachets containing white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu were seized/confiscated from the two HVI suspects, having a total weight of 9.19 grams and with an estimated Dangerous Drugs value of P62, 492.00.
Charges for violation of Sections 5 and 11, Art II of R.A 9165 as amended by RA 10640, the Comprehensive Law against Illegal Drugs of 2002 were filed at the City Prosecutors’ Office against the two suspects who are now detained at the locked-up cell of Police Station 4 of the OCPO in Brgy. Linao here.
(ROBERT DEJON)
