ILOILO City – A 29-year-old laborer was arrested in an antidrug operation in Barangay Poblacion South, Oton, Iloilo.
Resident Noel Ortega was arrested after he sold a sachet of suspected shabu worth P1,200 to an undercover officer at around 8:40 p.m. on Wednesday, a police report showed.
Confiscated from the suspect were seven sachets of suspected shabu and money worth P7,970 believed to be proceeds of illegal drug transactions, police added.
Ortega was detained in the lockup cell of Oton police station, facing charges for violation of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002./PN
