BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA AND CYRUS GARDE
BACOLOD City – Shabu worth about P13.6 million was confiscated from two suspects in a drug buy-bust operation in Barangay Lag-asan, Bago City, Negros Occidental.
Rodney Bidol, 38, and Raffy Pradilla, 28, were both residents of Barangay 2, Silay City, Negros Occidental.
According to Police Lieutenant Glenn Soliman, team leader of the Police Regional Office 6’s Drug Enforcement Unit in Bago City, the motorcycle-riding suspects delivered six sachets of the prohibited substance to an undercover police officer for P100,000 around 2 p.m. yesterday.
When inspected, the two yielded around two kilograms of shabu.
Soliman said the two were street level drug targets.
The suspects, meanwhile, claimed they were only ordered by their “boss” in Silay City to do the “deliveries.”
They also insisted it was just their second time to deliver shabu.
As of this writing, operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Group and the team of Soliman have yet to identify who Bidol and Pradilla were working for.
Meantime, the suspects were detained in the custodial facility of the Bago City police station. Charges for violation of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 will be filed against them./PN
