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

Police reports reveal that alias “Roger”, 20, listed as an illegal-drugs Street Level Individual (SLI), was arrested in Brgy. Bagong-Sikat, Puerto Princesa City after allegedly selling one (1) piece of heat-sealed transparent plastic sachet containing a white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu worth PhP1,500 to a police poseur-buyer during a joint buy-bust operation by the elements of Puerto Princesa City Police Station 1, SOU Maritime Group, and Anti-Crime Task Force Puerto Princesa City..

Authorities confiscated approximately 1.00 gram of suspected shabu with an estimated value of PhP6,800, along with the buy-bust money and related paraphernalia.

Furthermore, at approximately 12:12 AM, alias “Jonathan”, 37, listed as an illegal-drugs Street Level Individual (SLI), was apprehended in Purok 6B, Brgy San Roque, San Jose, 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 joint personnel of Occidental Mindoro PPO Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit and San Jose Municipal Police Station.

Confiscated from the suspect’s possession were approximately 0.186 grams of suspected shabu, the 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 proceedings against them.