SHABU SEIZED. An operative of the Police Regional Drug Enforcement Unit-Western Visayas conducts an inventory of the suspected shabu seized from two persons at Doña Juliana Subdivision, Barangay Taculing in Bacolod City on the night of Feb. 17, 2022. The suspects yielded some 15 grams of shabu with an estimated street value of PHP105,000. (Photo courtesy of Bacolod City Police Office)
BACOLOD CITY – Nine persons were arrested while a total of PHP224,400 worth of suspected shabu were seized in separate buy-busts here in the past four days, reports from the Bacolod City Police Office said.
On Thursday night, AJ Vincent Montelibano, 18, was caught red-handed selling a sachet of the prohibited substance worth PHP500 to an undercover policeman at Purok Nangka, Barangay 6.
The operation, carried out by personnel of Police Station 2 at 9:05 p.m., yielded four sachets of shabu, weighing some five grams, with an estimated value of PHP35,000.
Police carried out four operations on Wednesday. At 6:30 a.m., Albert Orilla, 25; and Leonel Diaz, 28, were arrested by operatives of Police Station 1 at Gatuslao Street in Barangay 38.
They yielded five sachets of shabu weighing less than a gram valued at PHP6,000.
At around 7:10 p.m., Rey Yungco, 41, was apprehended by personnel of Police Station 4 along Narra-Lopez Jaena Streets in Barangay Villamonte.
He sold PHP200 worth of shabu to a poseur-buyer and yielded five sachets weighing one gram valued at PHP6,800.
Twenty minutes later, intelligence operatives of Police Station 3 arrested Ryan Ledesma, 35, at a bus terminal in Barangay Bata after he sold a sachet of shabu worth PHP500 to an undercover policeman.
He yielded a total of two sachets of the prohibited substance weighing about one gram valued at PHP6,800.
Around 9:20 p.m., Arnold Corpus, 42; and Jason Serato, 24, both of Talisay City, Negros Occidental, were arrested by the team of the Police Regional Drug Enforcement Unit-Western Visayas with the personnel of Police Station 6 at Doña Juliana Subdivision in Barangay Taculing.
The suspects sold to a police poseur-buyer four sachets of shabu, worth PHP80,500, placed inside a blue pouch.
Corpus was previously arrested for the same offense, but was released after he entered into a plea bargain agreement, the police report said.
An inventory showed the operatives seized a total of 15 grams of shabu with an estimated street value of PHP105,000.
On Monday, at 6 p.m., Rodelio Samodio, 37, a high-value individual, was arrested by the drug enforcement team of Police Station 7 in his residence on Azucena Street, Purok Paghida-et in Barangay Mansilingan.
He sold PHP300 worth of shabu to a poseur-buyer and yielded three sachets of the same prohibited substance weighing six grams with an estimated market value of PHP40,800.
At 6:10 p.m., Reymundo Guillero, 18, was apprehended by personnel of Police Station 5 in Purok Chareza 1, Barangay 27, after he sold a sachet of shabu to an undercover police officer.
Operatives recovered from the suspect four sachets of the prohibited substance weighing more than three grams valued at PHP24,000. (PNA)
