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 Oriental Mindoro on Saturday, February 24, 2024.

Police reports reveal that alias “Rene”, 41, listed as an illegal-drugs street level individual (SLI), was arrested in Sitio Pastuhan, Brgy. Uyao, Roxas, Oriental 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 PDEA undercover officer during a joint buy-bust operation by the PDEA MIMAROPA RSET, PDEA Oriental Mindoro, and Roxas Municipal Police Station.

Authorities confiscated two (2) more pieces of small heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets of suspected shabu worth PhP5,000.00, the buy-bust money and related paraphernalia.

Furthermore, at approximately 5:40 PM, alias “Pedro”, 44, listed as an illegal-drugs high value individual (HVI), was apprehended in Sitio 1, Brgy. Sampaguita, Victoria, 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 Victoria Municipal Police Station together with Oriental Mindoro Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit, and PDEA MIMAROPA RSET.

Authorities seized approximately 0.53 grams of suspected shabu worth PhP2,500.00, the PhP1,000 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 proceedings against them.