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LUCENA CITY 鈥� Police arrested three suspected drug traffickers and seized more than P1.6 million worth of shabu (crystal meth) and an illegal firearm in buy-bust operations Tuesday in Quezon and Rizal provinces.
Quezon police reported on Wednesday, Feb. 26, that operatives from the Provincial Police Drug Enforcement Unit held the 鈥淧alang,鈥� 55, at 7:04 p.m. after he sold shabu to an undercover police officer in Barangay Isabang in Lucena City.
Seized from the suspect, a native of Tayabas City, were one plastic sachet and two sealed plastic bags containing shabu weighing 75 grams worth P510,000.
The seized shabu is worth P1,530,000 in the street market at the prevailing price of P20,400 per gram, according to the report.
The Quezon police are investigating the source of shabu peddled by the suspect, an identified high-value individual (HIV) in the local drug trade.
HVI refers to financiers, traffickers, manufacturers, and importers of illegal drugs or leaders/members of drug groups.
In Taytay, Rizal, the Region 4A police reported that local anti-narcotic agents arrested 鈥淥rak鈥� and 鈥淢oshi鈥� in a sting operation at 11:50 p.m.
The cops caught the suspects, both tagged as street drug pushers in the locality, with four sachets of meth worth P81,600.
When frisked, the police also found Orak allegedly carrying an undocumented caliber .38 revolver loaded with bullets.
All arrested suspects in the two operations are under police custody and facing complaints of violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
Orak will also face another case of illegal possession of a firearm and violation of the election gun ban.
搁贰础顿:听Shabu, marijuana worth P1.8 million, gun seized in Calabarzon drug ops