ILOILO City – Police arrested a suspected drug pusher in Barangay Camabugan, Dingle, Iloilo.
The 46-year-old Francis Dato, a resident of the village, was caught after he sold a sachet of suspected shabu to an undercover for P1,000, a police report showed.
Antidrug personnel of the Dingle police station staged the sting operation around 7 p.m. on Wednesday.
When frisked, Dato yielded seven more sachets of suspected shabu, police said.
The suspect was detained in the lockup cell of the Dingle police station.
He was facing charges for violation of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002./PN