• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
The series of buy bust operations of the police in Negros Occidental on April 8 and 9 led to the arrest of two job order employees of Manapla and Cadiz City, and 14 other drug suspects, along with the recovery of more than P135,000 worth of illegal drugs.
About 1.3 grams of suspected shabu with a market value of P8,840, and P500 in marked money were recovered by the police from a 48-year-old Job Order employee of the Cadiz City government, during his arrest on Tuesday at Purok Magkaisa in Brgy. Zone 3, Cadiz City.
The apprehension of another JO worker, this time of Manapla municipal government, and his companion, a vendor, at the town public market in Brgy. 2 poblacion, yielded nine sachets of suspected shabu and P500 marked money.
An estimated eight grams of suspected shabu with a market value of P54,400 were also recovered by the police in another buy bust operation on April 8 in Brgy. Mambulac, Silay City, from an arrested drug suspect.
The apprehension of a 35-year-old laborer on Wednesday at Sitio Bucroz Dacu in Brgy. Ayungon, La Carlota City, also led to the seizure of about three grams of suspected shabu with a market value of P20,400.
Another buy bust operation in Brgy. 1, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental led to the arrest of three more drug suspects and the recovery of 1.42 grams of suspected shabu with a market value of P9,656.
Eight more drug suspects were accounted for by the police, following their separate arrests in Murcia, Ilog, Sagay City, Calatrava, Binalbagan, Hinigaran, and Himamaylan City, that also led to the seizure of about eight grams of suspected shabu with a market value of P45,000.*
