Camp BGen Efigenio C Navarro, Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro – Police Regional Office MIMAROPA, under the leadership of PBGEN ROGER L QUESADA, arrested two (2) drug personalities in separate anti-illegal drug operations conducted in Occidental and Oriental Mindoro on Tuesday, January 16, 2024.

Police reports reveal that alias “Jose”, 54, listed as an illegal-drugs Street Level Individual (SLI), was arrested in ABC Hotel, Airport Road, Brgy, San Roque, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro after allegedly selling one (1) piece of 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 Occidental Mindoro PPO Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit and San Jose Municipal Police Station.

Authorities confiscated approximately 0.532 grams of suspected shabu with an estimated value of PhP5,000, along with the buy-bust money and related paraphernalia.

Furthermore, at approximately 2:27 PM, alias “Demetrio”, 37, was apprehended in Sitio Labak, Brgy. San Luis, Naujan, Oriental 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 the personnel of Naujan Municipal Police Station.

Authorities seized approximately 0.30 grams of suspected shabu worth PhP2,040, the buy-bust money and related paraphernalia.

Moreover, “Demetrio” was also charged of violation of R.A. 10591, after discovering one (1) unit of cal. 38 revolver loaded with two (2) live ammunitions in his possession during the said operation.

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 proceedings against them.