CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro – Four drug suspects were arrested on Sunday, April 17, 2022, including three in a buy-bust operation, and one at a Commission on Elections (Comelec) checkpoint in Occidental Mindoro.
The police identified the three suspects arrested in buy-bust operation as Jayron T. Muling Bayan, 41; Ronan Jay Reyes, 35; and Christes M. Custodio Solis, 31.
Brig. Gen. Sidney S. Hernia, regional director of Police Regional Office-MIMAROPA (Oriental Mindoro, Occidental Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, Palawan) said the trio transacted shabu with a police poseur-buyer in a joint police operation led by the Drug Enforcement Team of Mamburao Municipal Police Station together with the Occidental Mindoro Police Provincial Office (PPO) Drug Enforcement Unit, PRO MIMAROPA Regional Drug Enforcement Unit, Occidental Mindoro PPO 2nd Police Mobile Force Company (PMFC), and Philippine Drugs Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Occidental Mindoro.
Seized from the suspects were three pieces of small heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets containing “shabu,” valued at P46,000 and two small heat-sealed sachets containing dried leaves of marijuana valued at P600 and drug paraphernalia.
Also on that day, policemen manning a Comelec checkpoint in Sitio Longos, Barangay Tangal, Lubang arrested 22-year old Raniel S. Liedo, a resident of Tondo, Manila, allegedly for possession of two heat-sealed plastic sachets of suspected “shabu” with an estimated value of P35,000.
Liedo, who was vacationing in the area, was onboard a black motorcycle when flagged down by the police.
Capt. Clyde B. Kalyawen, chief of Police Regional Public Information Office, said data from the PNP Drug-Related Data Integration and Generation System (DRDIGS) of the Regional Operations Division show that since January to April 15 this year, PRO MIMAROPA had already launched 94 anti-illegal drug operations that resulted in the arrest of 100 drug suspects, yielding a total of 288.160 grams of “shabu” and 1,454.681 grams of “marijuana” valued at P1,925,351 and P174,561.72, respectively.
Brig. Gen. Hernia commended the operating units for the accomplishment and vowed to continuously enforce the law to ensure the peace and order in the communities even during the holiday break.