Tokhang surrender falls in P884K drug bust
A 47-year old man was arrested in a police anti-illegal drug operation years after he surrendered through Oplan Tokhang. Alias Bongbong, an employee of a distribution company and resident of City Proper, Iloilo City, was apprehended shortly before midnight of November 26 at Barangay Magsaysay, City Proper district. Members of the

By Jennifer P. Rendon
By Jennifer P. Rendon
A 47-year old man was arrested in a police anti-illegal drug operation years after he surrendered through Oplan Tokhang.
Alias Bongbong, an employee of a distribution company and resident of City Proper, Iloilo City, was apprehended shortly before midnight of November 26 at Barangay Magsaysay, City Proper district.
Members of the Iloilo City Police Office- City Drug Enforcement Unit (ICPO-CDEU), together with the Iloilo City Police Station 1, ICPO Special Weapons and Tactics Team and Regional Intelligence Unit 6, made the arrest after the suspect sold a sachet of suspected shabu for P8,000.
When he was frisked, the suspect was further yielded with 12 more sachets of suspected shabu and several non-drug items.
Captain Roque Gimeno, ICPO-CDEU chief, said the seized drugs weighed around 130 grams with a standard drug price of P884,000.
Gimeno said the suspect was believed to be engaged in the illegal drug trade for a while already before he got busted.
Bongbong, a high-value drug personality, had no previous drug-related arrest.
He is is now detained and will be charged for violation of Republic Act 9165 (Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002).
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