Seven persons fall in illegal drug busts

By Glazyl Y. Masculino

 

BACOLOD City – Seven persons were arrested for allegedly engaging in the illegal drug trade in Negros Occidental from Sept 8 to 9.

In Victorias City, Mark Arlou Miraflores, 39, of Barangay 5 was apprehended in a buy-bust at the said village last Tuesday.

Police seized from him nine sachets of suspected shabu worth P54,400, drug paraphernalia, and the P200 marked money.

In Silay City, Mark Anthony Monaya, 29, of Barangay Mambulac was collared in a drug bust at the said village on the same day, resulting in the recovery of three sachets of suspected shabu worth P6,800, the P500 marked money, and a lighter.

Also arrested in the said barangay that day were Benjo Montero, 26, of Barangay Lantad, Arvin Delos Reyes, 35, and Christopher Arturo, 33, both residents of Barangay Mambulac.

Authorities confiscated from them one gram of suspected shabu worth P6,800.

In Pontevedra town, Edgardo Mian, 23, of Valladolid town was arrested at Barangay Recreo on that same day for possessing five sachets of suspected shabu worth P4,080, lighter, P400, and the P500 marked money.

The following day, Francis Gerard Caingcoy, 30, of Barangay Orong was arrested in Kabankalan City.

Police confiscated from him 1.5 grams of suspected shabu worth P10,000, the P100 marked money, and P1,061 cash.