Camp BGen Efigenio C Navarro, Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro – Police Regional Office MIMAROPA, under the leadership of PBGEN SIDNEY SULTAN HERNIA, arrested a drug high-value individual in a buy-bust operation in Occidental Mindoro on Wednesday, June 15, 2022.

Occidental Mindoro PPO Director Police Colonel Simeon L Gane Jr revealed that Ryan Lopez Dela Cruz a.k.a. “Rye”, 40, who hails from Arellano St, Barangay Poblacion 3, San Jose, of the said province, was arrested after allegedly selling one heat-sealed transparent plastic sachet containing “shabu” worth Php 1,000.00 to a police poseur-buyer in a police operation led by the Drug Enforcement Team of San Jose Municipal Police Station together with the Regional Drug Enforcement Unit 4B, Occidental Mindoro PPO Drugs Enforcement Unit, and PDEA Occidental Mindoro.

Also seized from the suspect’s possession were two additional pieces of small heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets of shabu, weighing approximately 0.35 grams with street value of Php2,800.00, the buy-bust money, and other paraphernalia.

The data from the PNP Drug-Related Data Integration and Generation System (DRDIGS) of the Regional Operations Division show that PRO MIMAROPA had already launched 140 anti-illegal drug operations and arrested 152 drug suspects, yielding a total of 390.359 grams of “shabu” valued at Php2,710,677.2 since January this year.

Dela Cruz is now under police custody while a complaint of violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 (RA 9165) is being prepared for the inquest proceedings against him.

“I commend our operatives for their efforts which resulted in a successful operation. This accomplishment is a proof of the PNP’s continuing commitment in ending the region’s illegal drugs supply chain”, PBGen Hernia said. – RPIO MIMAROPA