• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
Separate buy bust operations on June 3 and 4 in Negros Occidental led to the confiscation of about P775,000 worth of suspected shabu, from six arrested drug suspects.
The apprehension of two drug suspects yesterday, who are included in the regional drug watch list of Police Regional Office 6 and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, led to the seizure of an estimated 105 grams of suspected shabu with a market value of P714,000, in Barangay 3 poblacion, La Carlota City.
Both arrested drug suspects, whose identities were withheld, are residents of Fortune Town in Brgy. Estefania, Bacolod City.
Three other drug suspects have been also arrested by the police in two separate buy bust operations on June 3 in Brgys. Mambulac and E Lopez, Silay City.
Their apprehensions yielded more or less 10 grams of suspected shabu with a market value of 70,000.
Another buy bust operation at Purok Rosal 1, Brgy. Zone 10 in Talisay City, also led to the arrest of another drug suspect, which yielded three sachets of suspected shabu and P500 in marked money.*