Police net P945,000 shabu

BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested two suspected drug pushers in buy-bust operations here and Negros Occidental on April 11 and 12.

Seized from the suspects were P945,200 worth of suspected shabu.

A SUSPECTED drug pusher was arrested and P850,000 shabu was confiscated in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Handumanan, Bacolod City on Friday, April 12. (Photo courtesy of CDEU)

The Bacolod City Drug Enforcement Unit (CDEU) recovered shabu worth P850,000 from Allen Jay Tumayan in Barangay Handumanan here on Friday, April 12.

Police Capt. Joven Mogato, CDEU head, said the suspect was monitored to have been engaged in the illegal drugs trade for three months.

Also recovered from the suspect were a .45 caliber pistol and bullets, the P1,000 marked money, and P200.

The suspect was a high-value individual, according to the police.

Meanwhile, in Kabankalan City, a 36-year-old man was arrested in Barangay Hilamonan on Thursday, April 11.

Police confiscated from him 14 grams of shabu worth P95,200, the P500 marked money, an improvised tooter, a lighter, three plastic canisters, and a plastic tooter container.