ILOILO City – Suspected shabu worth an estimated P40,000 was seized from a resident of Barangay Boulevard, Molo district.
Joel Catilo was arrested in a buy-bust operation in their barangay, a police report showed.
Police said Catilo sold a plastic pack of the substance to undercover officers for P5,200 at around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Seven sachets of the same substance, drug paraphernalia and P3,000 cash were further seized from him.
Officers from La Paz police station and the Regional Drug Enforcement Unit of the Police Regional Office 6 staged the buy-bust.
Catilo was detained at the La Paz police station. (Ruby Silubrico and Ian Paul Cordero/PN)
