TACLOBAN CITY, July
19 -- Six drug suspects, including a village youth council chairman,
were arrested Wednesday night in a buy-bust operation in Baybay City, Leyte.
PDEA Eastern Visayas
Regional Director Edgar Jubay identified the apprehended youth council chairman
as Doni Francis Pascua, 21, of Inopacan, Leyte.
The other arrested
suspects included Jomar Jose Polo, 22, fisherman from Himoaw village, Hilongos
Leyte; John Paul Navales, 24, businessman from Santa Cruz village in Hilongos,
Leyte; Jester James Lora, 22, jobless from Campina village, Hilongos, Leyte;
Epheren Son Flores, 30, waiter from Santa Cruz village, Baybay City; and Edison
Flores, 31 singer, also from Santa Cruz village.
“Since they are not
on our drug watchlist, they are considered as newly-identified drug
personalities,” Jubay told reporters.
The buy-bust
operation by narcotics agents and policemen took place in a suspected drug den
in Guadalupe village in Baybay City past 10 p.m. on Wednesday. An undercover
officer posed as a buyer of shabu from Polo.
Purchased and
confiscated during the operation were five pieces heat-sealed transparent
plastic sachet containing suspected shabu with an estimated market value of
PHP24,400 and various drug paraphernalia.
Jubay said Polo will
be charged with sale and possession of dangerous drugs and possession of drug
paraphernalia.
The rest of those
arrested will be facing charges as employees/visitors of drug den, and possession
of drug paraphernalia.
The suspects are
temporarily detained at PDEA Region 8 detention facility in Palo, Leyte. (LAAA/PNA)
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