3 suspects fall in string of anti-drug operations in Bicol
Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 03:41:10 +0000
LEGAZPI CITY — Police anti-narcotics operatives arrested on Wednesday evening three alleged illegal drug peddlers in separate drug operations in the provinces of Camarines Sur, Camarines Norte and Sorsogon, a police report said on Thursday.
Ranilo Gegantone, 44, a resident of Bulan town in Sorsogon, was caught selling a sachet of “shabu” (crystal meth) to an undercover police operative in Barangay (village) Zone 1 at around 10 a.m. Wednesday. The suspect was listed No. 7 in the provincial Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) watch list.
In Labo town in Camarines Norte, Arnel Laron, 48, of Barangay Malasugui, was nabbed in a buy-bust operation at around 4:30 p.m. Seized from his possession is a sachet of shabu worth P2,000.
In a drug operation in Ocampo town in Camarines Sur, Erwin Calupit, 35, of Barangay Hanawan was arrested in a buy-bust sting at 10:45 p.m. seizing 4 sachets of shabu worth P5,000. /jpv