Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro – The Police Regional Office MIMAROPA, led by Police Brigadier General ROGER L QUESADA, successfully apprehended three individuals in separate anti-illegal drug operations conducted regionwide on Thursday, December 28, 2023,
Police reports revealed that alias “Nestor”, 47, was arrested in Barangay Lazareto, Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro after allegedly selling a heat-sealed transparent plastic sachet containing a white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu worth Php1,000 to a police poseur-buyer during a joint buy-bust operation by the Calapan City Police Station, Regional Drug Enforcement Unit, Technical Support Company and 404th B Maneuver Company under RMFB.
Authorities confiscated approximately 0.6 grams of suspected shabu with an estimated value of Php4,080.00, along with the buy-bust money and related paraphernalia.
Furthermore, at approximately 7:58 PM, alias “Edwin”, 34, listed as an illegal-drugs high value individual (HVI), was apprehended in Sitio Boribor, Brgy. Payompon, Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro, after allegedly selling a heat-sealed transparent plastic sachet containing a white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu worth Php1,000 to an undercover police officer during a buy-bust operation launched by Mamburao Municipal Police Station together with Occidental Mindoro PPO Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit and PDEA Occidental Mindoro.
Authorities seized the Php1,000 buy-bust money and related paraphernalia.
Moreover, a joint buy-bust operation conducted by the elements of Romblon PPO Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit together with San Agustin Municipal Police Station and Police Drug Enforcement Group SOU 4B resulted in the arrest of alias “Ivan”, 28, in Barangay Poblacion, San Agustin, Romblon, after allegedly selling one piece of small heat-sealed transparent plastic sachet containing shabu worth Php3,000 to an undercover police officer.
Confiscated from the suspect’s possession were Php3,000 buy-bust money and related paraphernalia.
The arrested drug suspects are now in police custody, and complaints of violations of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 (RA 9165) are being prepared for the inquest proceeding against them.