Drugs seized from the suspects. Contributed photo
CABANATUAN CITY – Two women, including a 17-year-old student, were arrested for alleged selling and possession of P360,400 worth of suspected shabu in Barangay Bakod Bayan here at about 11:50 p..m Wednesday.
The suspects identified as Rosemarie Santos, 41, married, resident of the said village and the minor from Barangay Camp Tinio, also of this city, were collared in a buy bust operation hatched by the Nueva Ecija police’s drug enforcement unit headed by Lt. Col. Alexie Desamito and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, along with city and other police units.
Desamito said an undercover policeman initially managed to buy a single sachet of shabu using a marked P500 bill from the suspects “who conspired to sell the same.”
During the arrest, however, operatives reportedly recovered nine more sachets from Santos and eleven from the student.
Nueva Ecija police director Col. Jaime Santos said charges of violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act were filed against the suspects before the city prosecutor’s office.
