The husband of a barangay councilor was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Gargato, Hinigaran, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, May 8.
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-Regional Special Enforcement Team Bravo in Western Visayas seized 15 grams of suspected shabu worth P102,000 from the suspect, 33-year-old businessman alias Tors, Turo, and Turing.
THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) seized P102,000 worth of suspected shabu from a husband of a barangay councilor in Hinigaran, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, May 8. (Photo courtesy of PDEA-Western Visayas)
The operation was conducted in coordination with the PDEA-Negros Occidental and the Hinigaran Municipal Police Station.
The PDEA said the suspect is the town’s No. 2 target-listed drug personality and a son of an alleged former leader of a dismantled drug group operating in Iloilo.
A PDEA agent said that it took them several months to monitor the suspect.
He said the suspect had a previous murder case which was reportedly claimed by his father.
The PDEA agent also said that the suspect had a previous case for illegal possession of firearms in Estancia, Iloilo, but was able to post bail, while a similar case in Hinoba-an town was dismissed.
The suspect was previously charged for illegal possession of dangerous drugs during the service of an arrest warrant for murder in Hinoba-an but he applied for plea bargaining, the PDEA agent added.