State university worker nabbed in drug sting

By Jennifer P. Rendon

A casual employee of a state university was arrested in a police anti-illegal drug operation early evening of May 20 in Santa Barbara, Iloilo.

The suspect, identified only as alias Bax, 54, was arrested in a buy-bust operation at his house in Barangay Balabag, Santa Barbara.

Members of the Iloilo Police Provincial Office-Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit, together with the IPPO Provincial Intelligence Unit and the Santa Barbara Municipal Police Station, apprehended the suspect after he allegedly sold a sachet of suspected shabu for PHP 6,800.

Police said the suspect yielded four more sachets of suspected shabu and several non-drug items during a frisk.

Maj. Dadje Delima, IPPO-PDEU chief, said the seized drugs weighed around 120 grams and had an estimated value of PHP 816,000.

Delima said the operation was carried out by PDEU operatives following coordinated intelligence work.

Bax is detained and will be charged with violation of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.