ILOILO City – Police arrested a suspected drug dealer during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Calumpang, Molo district that led to the seizure of nine sachets of suspected shabu.
A police report described Sherwin Palawan of the same barangay a “newly identified” drug personality.
This meant the resident was not on the list of suspected drug dealers and/or users the local police were already monitoring.
Palawan sold a sachet of suspected shabu for P1,200 to an undercover officer at around 10:40 p.m. last Friday, stated the police report.
Eight more plastic packs of the same substance were seized from the suspect.
Palawan was taken to the Molo police station.
He faces charges for violation of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, specifically drug selling and possession./PN
