Camp BGen Efigenio C Navarro, Calapan City – Two (2) individuals were arrested in an anti-illegal drug buy-bust operation in So. Punggo Punggo, Brgy. Buliluyan, Bataraza, Palawan, on August 15, 2023, at around 9:51 PM.

According to the police report, Mohaimen Majid Abtang alias “Kulot”, 39, and Micheal Clapano Lucero, 39, were apprehended after allegedly selling one (1) piece of transparent plastic sachet containing suspected ‘shabu’ in exchange for Php1,000 to a police poseur-buyer.

The operation was carried out by the elements of the Bataraza Municipal Police Station together with the Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit Palawan PPO, Provincial Intelligence Unit, 2nd SOU Maritime-Balabac, and 1st Provincial Mobile Force Company.

Confiscated from the suspects’ possession were four (4) more pieces of heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets containing suspected shabu, the Php1,000 buy-bust money, and other paraphernalia.

The apprehended individuals are now under police custody pending the filing of charges in violation of Republic Act 9165, otherwise known as the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.