CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Four suspected drug pushers were arrested in buy-bust operations in the Cordillera on August 14.
Police identified the suspects as street-level individuals Exel Gandeza Baro, 43; Juvina Osud Baro, 49; and Rolly Navia Alban, 41; and Ryan Pajardo Carino, 41, a high-value individual.
Exel and Juvina were arrested by the Abra Police Provincial Office and Regional Mobile Force Battalion-15 after they sold one sachet of suspected shabu weighing more or less 0.16 grams with a standard drug price of P1,020 to a poseur-buyer.
They also yielded 0.16 grams of suspected shabu with an SDP of P 1,020.
Carino was nabbed in Benguet by the Benguet Police Provincial Office, Regional Intelligence Division (RID), and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Cordillera after selling one sachet of suspected shabu weighing more or less 0.37 grams with an SDP of P2,516 to an undercover operative.
Alban was apprehended in Baguio City by the City Drug Enforcement Unit, Camdas Police Station, City Intelligence Unit (CIU), and RID-Cordillera after he sold one sachet of suspected shabu weighing more or less 1.87 grams with an SDP of P12,375.