BY MAE SINGUAY AND CYRUS GARDE
BACOLOD City – Seventeen sachets of suspected shabu weighing about twenty nine grams valued around P234,400 was seized in a buy-bust operation in Barangay 12.
Residents Samuel Sumagaysay, 38, Melanie Del Valle, 40, and Sergio Rivera, 33, yielded the suspected illegal drugs around 9:30 p.m. on Feb. 6, a police report showed.
Aside from suspected shabu, marked money worth P500 and cash amounting to P960 were also confiscated from the suspects.
They were detained in the lockup cell of Police Station 1, facing charges for violation of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002./PN