{"id":1089774,"date":"2019-02-26T01:52:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T17:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/?p=1089774"},"modified":"2019-02-26T01:52:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T17:52:07","slug":"tagbilaran-buy-bust-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/1089774\/tagbilaran-buy-bust-operation","title":{"rendered":"Cops arrest 3 drug suspects in Bohol buy-bust"},"content":{"rendered":"
The suspects (from left): Felipe Lusterio Jr., Edwin Bague, and Bryan Adlaon Sumampong. (Photo by LEO UDTOHAN \/ Inquirer Visayas)<\/p><\/div>\n
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol \u2014 Three suspected drug pushers, one of them a college student, were arrested in a buy-bust operation in this city on Monday night.<\/p>\n
But the suspects denied being involved in illegal drugs.<\/p>\n
They were identified as Bryan Adlaon Sumampong, 21, of Batuan town; Felipe Lusterio Jr., 37, of Panglao town; and Edwin Bague, 38, of Calape town.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t get ourselves involved in drugs,\u201d Lusterio said.<\/p>\n
Sumampong, a college student, also denied peddling drugs, although the police claimed he was a new player who could dispose of 250 grams of shabu per week and whose clients were mostly students.<\/p>\n
According to police, Sumampong arrived at Getafe pier in Bohol from Cordova town in Cebu about 2 p.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n
He was fetched by Lusterio and Bague.<\/p>\n
From Getafe they took a V-hire to Tagbilaran and sold shabu worth P100,000 to an undercover agent on Alfonso Uy Street beside the Integrated Bus Terminal in the city at about 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
After the transaction, the three suspects were arrested by the police.<\/p>\n
Seized from Sumampong was one extra large pack of suspected crystal meth, or shabu, and two large packs were each recovered from Lusterio and Bague.<\/p>\n
The suspected illegal drugs have an estimated worth of P850,000. \/atm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Three suspected drug pushers, one of them a college student, were arrested in a buy-bust operation in this city on Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1098,"featured_media":1089778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,46],"tags":[182619],"byline":[153621],"source":[206073],"column":[],"editor":[189937],"videographer":[],"position":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n