Eight nabbed, P80,560 worth of ‘shabu’ seized

By Glazyl Y. Masculino

BACOLOD City – Eight persons were arrested here and in Negros Occidental in anti-illegal drug operations in the past five days, including a man who tried to sneak in illegal drugs in a COVID-19 isolation facility in Cadiz City.

Police records indicated that a 40-year-old male resident of Barangay Daga, Cadiz City was apprehended last Friday at St. Andrew Park Place II, Barangay Tinampaan, after a security guard confiscated from him a sachet of suspected shabu hidden in a loaf of bread during a search on essential goods to be delivered to a patient in the facility.

The search is a protocol at the facility to ensure the non-entry of prohibited items.

Also recovered were two crumpled aluminum foils, and a plastic bag containing four loaves of bread.

The suspect is detained at Cadiz City Police Station.

Aside from that, policemen also arrested five others in separate buy-bust operations and seized P11,560 worth of suspected shabu in the cities of Talisay, Kabankalan, and Bago from October 29 to November 1.

In Bacolod, two persons were arrested separately in Barangays 1 and Banago on October 31 and November 1, respectively.

Police seized P69,000 worth of suspected shabu in drug bust operations led by Police Stations 8 and 5, as well as the City Drug Enforcement Unit (CDEU).