ILOILO City – Nine sachets of suspected shabu were seized in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Balabag, Pavia, Iloilo.
The 29-year-old resident Alfred Gualta yielded the suspected illegal drugs, police said
Officers of the Pavia police station staged the entrapment operation that led to the arrest of the suspect
around 10:30 p.m. on Nov. 5.
Aside from suspected illegal drugs, a P1,000 marked money was also recovered.
Gualta was detained in the lockup cell of the municipal police station, facing charges for violation of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002./PN