SAN ANTONIO, Zambales — Police arrested a suspected drug pusher selling a sachet of dried marijuana leaves during a drug operation at Purok 2, Barangay Pundaquit here.
Police Captain Jonathan Bardaje, head of San Antonio Municipal Police Station, identifi ed the suspect as Jedie Tuscano y Genoves, 24, of Purok 1 Barangay Pundaquit.
He was nabbed in the act of selling the illegal substance worth P300 to a poseur-buyer.
Recovered from Tuscano were two transparent plastic sachets of dried marijuana leaves and the marked money.
The suspect now faces charges for violation of Section 5 and 11 in Article II of RA 9165 before the Provincial Prosecutors Office in Iba, Zambales.
