Camp BGen Efigenio C Navarro, Calapan City – A 53-year-old man, who is listed as an illegal-drugs street-level individual, was arrested in an anti-illegal drug buybust operation in Sitio Buligay, Poblacion District I, Brooke’s Point, Palawan on February 1, 2024, at around 8:54 AM.

A report revealed that alias “Fide”, 53, was arrested after allegedly selling one (1) piece of transparent plastic sachet containing suspected ‘shabu’ in exchange for PhP1,000 to a police poseur-buyer in an anti-illegal drug buybust operation launched by joint elements of Brooke’s Point Municipal Police Station and Palawan PPO Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit.

Confiscated from the suspect’s possession were approximately 0.79grams of suspected shabu worth PhP5,372; the PhP1,000 buy-bust money and related paraphernalia.

“Fide” is now under police custody pending the filing of charges for violation of Republic Act 9165, otherwise known as the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.