A rookie policeman landed in jail after he was caught selling shabu in a buy-bust conducted by agents of the Philippine National Police-Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group (PNP-IMEG), in Guinobatan, Albay.
Nabbed was Patrolman Joshua Resentes, assigned to the Regional Headquarters Support Unit, of the Police Regional Office 5.
IMEG director Police Col. Victor Rosete said the operation against Resentes was carried out after an arrested drug user squealed the rookie cop’s name as the source of illegal drugs during an interrogation.
A buy-bust was then carried out which resulted in the arrest of Resentes in Purok 1, Barangay San Rafael on May 11 after receiving the P16,000 marked and boodle money from the poseur buyer as payment for the shabu.
Rosete said Resentes is now temporarily detained at Guinobatan MPS for documentation, proper disposition, and eventual filing of cases.