BACOLOD City – In La Carlota City, Negros Occidental, two drug suspects were arrested in separate anti-illegal drug operations of the police.
In the first operation, a resident of Barangay 2 yielded 15 grams of suspected shabu worth P102,000.
Suspect Ian Erwin Nolasco, 36, was apprehended at around 4:40 p.m. on June 8 in Barangay 1.
Police recovered the P15,000 marked money that a poseur buyer used; P300 cash; a cellular phone; drug paraphernalia; and a motorcycle.
The suspect, who faces a charge for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, was taken to the La Carlota police station.
In the other operation, cops arrested a drug suspect and seized one gram of suspected shabu in Hacienda Fe, Barangay Batuan at around 4:30 p.m. also on June 8. In this buy-bust, the city police was backed up by the 2nd Negros Occidental Provincial Mobile Force Company.
The suspect was Jomar Jalandoni, a 37-year-old fish vendor and resident of CBC Paet Relocation, Barangay Batuan. He sold a sachet to a police poseur buyer for P1,000, police said.
Recovered from this operation were three heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets containing white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu; the P1,000 buy-bust money; a Samsung A20S touchscreen cellphone; a brown leather coin purse; and a black Kawasaki HDIII Motorcycle with Chassis No. KC125E-BE9371.
The three heat-sealed plastic sachets containing suspected shabu was valued at P6,800.
Jalandoni was taken to the La Carlota City police station.
The police would be charging him with violation of Republic Act 9165 (Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002)./PN
