MABALACAT CITY, Pampanga – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency dismantled two improvised drug dens and seized suspected shabu worth P159,600 in separate buy-bust operations in Barangay Dau here on Thursday night, April 13.
Eight drug suspects were arrested.
In the first operation at 10:32 p.m., four suspects, including the operator, 42-year-old Marlon L. Pascual, alias “Jesus,” were apprehended. They yielded 10 grams of shabu valued at P69,900 and drug paraphernalia.
The second operation was conducted at 11:20 p.m. in which four suspects were nabbed and 13 grams of shabu with an estimated street value of P89,700 were confiscated.
The operations were conducted by the PDEA Region 3- Tarlac Provincial Office.
Suspects face cases for violation of Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Act of 2002.