SAP grantee, two others nabbed in drug busts

By Glazyl Y. Masculino

BACOLOD City – Three persons, including a beneficiary of the national government’s Social Amelioration Program (SAP) were arrested in three separate buy-bust operations here and in Talisay City, Negros Occidental over the weekend.

In Bacolod City, Danilo Vivas, 29, of Barangay 8 was arrested at the said village last Sunday.

Police seized from Vivas six sachets of suspected shabu weighing nine grams amounting to P81,000, the P500 marked money, drug paraphernalia, and P400 cash.

Vivas, a street level target under a drugs watchlist, is detained at Police Station 2.

He is also a beneficiary of SAP, a cash aid given to qualified recipients affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Also arrested by operatives of the City Drug Enforcement Unit (CDEU) at Barangay Mansilingan here that day was Ricky Lanada, 31, after he allegedly yielded five sachets of suspected shabu worth P24,500, the P500 marked money, and drug paraphernalia.

He is detained at Police Station 7.

In Talisay City, Arvin Batinda-an was arrested at Barangay Bubog last Saturday for possessing 11 sachets of suspected shabu worth P30,000.

Also seized from him were the P500 marked money and P520 personal cash.