Two gov’t employees, 17 nabbed for illegal drugs
BACOLOD City – Nineteen persons, including two government employees here and in Negros Occidental were arrested for an alleged drug offense from November 8 to 13. Their apprehension resulted in the drug recovery amounting to a total of P282,486 in the past six days. In E.B. Magalona town, a 53-year-old government

By Glazyl Y. Masculino

By Glazyl Y. Masculino
BACOLOD City – Nineteen persons, including two government employees here and in Negros Occidental were arrested for an alleged drug offense from November 8 to 13.
Their apprehension resulted in the drug recovery amounting to a total of P282,486 in the past six days.
In E.B. Magalona town, a 53-year-old government employee assigned as head of the maintenance of the town’s public cemetery was arrested in a buy-bust at Barangay II-Poblacion last Friday.
Police recovered from him five grams of suspected shabu worth P34,000, the P100 marked money, and P1,308.
Another 53-year-old government employee in Sagay City was also apprehended by police in a drug bust in Barangay Rizal on the same day. He allegedly yielded P1,720 worth of suspected shabu, and the P500 marked money.
Meanwhile, 13 other persons were also arrested by police in separate anti-illegal drug operations conducted in the cities of Talisay, San Carlos, Kabankalan, Victorias, Silay, and La Carlota, and the towns of La Castellana, Hinoba-an, Ilog, and Cauayan. The provincial police force confiscated P172,310 worth of the said contraband.
In Bacolod, four individuals were apprehended in Barangays Villamonte, Banago, 16, and 28, that resulted in the seizure of P74,456 worth of suspected shabu.
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