KALIBO, Aklan – A suspected drug pusher was nabbed in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Balabag, Boracay Island.
Police identified him as 24-year-old house caretaker Ped Jay Sabanal of Calinan, Davao del Norte.
Sabanal was arrested after he sold two sachets of suspected marijuana to an undercover officer for P1,200 on Aug. 24, a police report showed.
Police Corporal Mark Benson Rivera said the suspect was temporarily detained in Malay municipal police station’s custodial facility while the recovered items were submitted to the Capiz Provincial Crime Laboratory in Roxas City for further examination.
Joint forces of the Malay municipal police station’s Drug Enforcement Unit, Aklan Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit, Regional Drug Enforcement Unit, 2nd Aklan Provincial Mobile Force Company, and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Aklan staged the entrapment operation. (With a report from Akean Forum/PN)
