TACLOBAN CITY – A 51-year-old barangay councilor or “kagawad” was nabbed in a buy-bust operation in interior Barangay Quezon, MacArthur, Leyte, on Friday, December 8.
The suspect was identified as Joel Coderes, 51, a resident and official of Barangay Quezon.
Coderes was listed as a high-value individual in the illegal drugs trade by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-8 (Eastern Visayas) and the Philippine National Police.
He was apprehended by a joint PDEA-Leyte and MacArthur Municipal Police Station team after he sold P500 worth of suspected from a poseur-buyer.
Coderes yielded 4.02 grams of shabu with an estimated value of P27,700.
The suspect was previously arrested for the same offense and had been monitored for alleged illegal drug activities.
Coderes was taken to the MacArthur MPS and drug-related cases are being prepared against him.