Ex-convict yields P100,000 shabu in Bacolod buy-bust


BACOLOD CITY – A woman who had been convicted for illegal drugs was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay 29 here on Wednesday, May 24.

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FIFTEEN grams of suspected shabu worth P100,000 were seized from a woman in a buy-bust operation in Barangay 29, Bacolod City on Wednesday, May 24. (Photo courtesy of Bacolod City police)

Police Capt. Francis Depasucat, head of Police Station 5, said Maria Theresa Mendoza, 45, of Barangay 29, yielded 15 grams of suspected shabu worth P100,000, an improvised tooter, marked money, and a lighter.

She is a street-level individual, according to the police.

Depasucat said that Mendoza served her sentence at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City.

She was released from jail two years ago, he added.