BACOLOD City – Almost half a million pesos worth of suspected shabu was recovered in Purok Mainuswagon, Barangay 2, Silay City, Negros Occidental, police said.
The suspected drugs contained in 12 plastic sachets were confiscated from the 22-year-old Paul Dyson Conlu.
Police said the recovered suspected shabu had an estimated value of P480,000.
Conlu – a resident of Barangay Rizal, Silay City – was included in the drug watch list of the Silay City police station.
He was arrested after he sold suspected shabu to an undercover officer for P11,000 around 9:20 p.m. on Friday, a police report showed.
Aside from the suspected drugs, a weighing scale and other drug paraphernalia were also seized from Conlu.
The City Drug Enforcement Unit and the 605th Regional Mobile Force Battalion staged the sting operation.
Conlu, detained in the lockup cell of the Silay City police station, faces charges for violation of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002./PN
