AGNO, Pangasinan – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency arrested a barangay kagawad or councilor in a buy-bust operation in this town on Monday, February 5.
A BARANGAY kagawad was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Agno, Pangasinan on Monday, February 5. (Photo via Liezle Inigo)
The suspect was identified as Jaimes Bernard N. Peralta.
PDEA-Ilocos Director Joel Plaza said confiscated from the suspect were three heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets containing suspected shabu weighing more or less five grams worth P34,000, a cigarette box, a motorcycle, and the buy-bust money.
Peralta faces a case for violation of Section 5 (Sale of Dangerous Drugs) and Section 11 (Possession of Dangerous Drugs), Article II of Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
The suspect is detained at the PDEA Pangasinan Provincial Office in Urdaneta City, Pangasinan.
The PDEA was backed by the Police Regional Office 1- Regional Drug Enforcement Unit and Agno Police Station.