Camp BGen Efigenio C Navarro, Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro-Three drug suspects, high value individuals, named Rommel Lacena Vitto 39 years old; Rowena Jalotjot Nambio, 49 years old; and Jovie Lawig Nambio, 52 years old; all residents of Inclanay, Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro were arrested in Brgy. Lumang Bayan, Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro during the buy-bust operation.

The said individuals were arrested as a result of intensified police operation of Calapan City Drug Enforcement Team (CDET) after the poseur buyer was able to buy one plastic sachet containing white substance suspected to be shabu in exchange for Php 2,000.00.

The confiscated plastic sachets, as pieces of evidence, have an estimated weight of 12.77 grams amounting to Php 86,836.00 based on Dangerous Drugs Board Value, and two (2) marked money, worth one thousand peso each, from the suspects.

Meanwhile, Calapan City Police Station anticipates that the drugs examination result from PDEA MIMAROPA Crime Laboratory Office will be released as soon as possible in order to determine whether the confiscated items contain methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu.

As of press time, the PNP Drug Related Data Integration and Generation System (DRDIGS) provides that PRO MIMAROPA had conducted a total of 352 drug buy-bust operations, arrested 442 suspects, confiscated a total of 1,633.767 grams of shabu with Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) value of PhP 10, 894, 670 since January 1, 2021.

This remarkable accomplishment is another product of rigorous campaign and reiteration of the Deputy Regional Director for Operations, Police Colonel GIL FRANCIS G TRIA, Provincial Directors, Chiefs of Police, and team leaders of drugs enforcement units during enhanced managing police operations meetings.

Police Brigadier General SIDNEY SULTAN HERNIA, Regional Director of Police Regional Office MIMAROPA, directed all drugs enforcement units in the region to sustain their intensified police operations against illegal drugs targeting high value individuals or priority targets.

“My goal is to have more drug-cleared barangays, municipalities, and provinces during my stint as Regional Director”, he said. – RPIO MIMAROPA