COTABATO CITY – Police operatives arrested a woman and seized from her PHP10,000 worth of suspected shabu during a drug buy-bust inside a hotel here on Wednesday afternoon.
Lt. Col. Lino Capellan, speaking for the Police Regional Office-12, identified the suspect as Melanie M. Guiabal, alias “Melanie,” a resident of Barangay Bagua-Mother, Cotabato City.
Capellan said Guiabal, 43, sold illegal drugs right inside the Diamond Hotel on Jose Lim Street, Cotabato City.
“One of her clients alerted the police about her activity,” Capellan said, adding the information prompted the police to do a buy-bust against the suspect.
He said Guiabal yielded 14 shabu sachets with an estimated market value of PHP10,000, a PHP500 marked money, shabu paraphernalia, and other pieces of evidence.
The confiscated items were turned over to Regional Crime Laboratory Office while the suspect was detained at the city police custodial facility at Pedro Colina Hill, this city.
Charges for violation of RA 9165 (Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002) are being prepared against the suspect. (PNA)
Woman nabbed for peddling shabu inside hotel
By Edwin Fernandez
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