BALANGA City: The Bataan Police Provincial Office announced the arrest of four individuals and the recovery of more or less 6.9 grams of shabu with standard drug price of P46,920 in a pot session in Barangay Mabatang in Abucay, Bataan on Monday.
Major Gerald John Bautista, Abucay police chief, reported to Bataan OIC police director Col. Marites Salvadora that the suspects were caught in the act of using illegal drugs.
Charges for violation of Sections 11, 13 and 14 of Article II of RA 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act were readied against the four suspects.
Meanwhile, a female drug courier was arrested and 25 grams of shabu with equivalent value of P170,000 were seized in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Culis in Hermosa, Bataan on Monday.
Salvadora said operatives of the drug enforcement unit of the Hermosa municipal police station in cooperation with the Bataan police provincial drug enforcement unit and the Ist provincial mobile force company conducted the operation.
The arrested suspect is now under the custody of the Hermosa PNP while criminal complaints on Sections 5 and 11, Article 2 of RA 9165 will be charged against her.
