OLONGAPO CITY – Five in the police’s drug watch were arrested by the city police in anti-drug operations at Purok 1, Mactan, Barangay West Bajac-Bajac here.
Police identified the suspects as Bokari Pangandag, 50; Virgilio Meron, 36, and Christian Ramos, 25, all residents of Barangay Old Cabalan.
The three were arrested in the act of selling sachets of shabu worth P1,000 to a police poseur-buyer.
Reports said while the drug operation was on going, suspects Jobert Alonzo, 18, of Barangay Old Cabalan, and Bien Felarca, 50, of Subic town, arrived in the area to buy a sachet of shabu from the three suspects already arrested by the police.
Recovered from Pangandag were eight transparent plastic sachets of shabu with a street value of P85,000 and the marked money.
Felarca and Alonzo each yielded one transparent plastic sachet of shabu.
The suspects were all detained at Police Station 1 of the Olongapo City Police Office (OCPO) facing charges for violation of Section 5 and 11, Article ll of RA 9165.
