Two nabbed in P360-K drug sting

By Glazyl Y. Masculino

BACOLOD City – Two men were arrested in a buy-bust in Barangay 1, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental last Thursday which resulted in the recovery of P360,400 worth of suspected shabu.

Lieutenant Ruby Aurita, deputy police chief of San Carlos City Police Station, identified the subject as Dino Carlo Sebugero, 32, and his companion Jopit Villador, 42, both residents of the said village.

Police confiscated from them 53 grams of suspected shabu, the P1,000 marked money, and a weighing scale.

Aurita said that both are considered street level individuals.

Aurita said Sebugero was charged for estafa in 2017, and reportedly started small in the alleged illegal drug trade.

“Dati small-time lang siya, pero subong dalagko na iya gina baligya,” Aurita said, adding that Villador is Sebugero’s partner since then.

Aurita said that Sebugero would allegedly repack the contraband and sell it to his “parokyanos” or clients who drop by their house.

“Ma text na una ang mabakal sa iya then ma labay lang sa ila balay kay along the highway man lang,” Aurita said.

Aurita said they refused to divulge the source of the contraband.

Drug charges are being readied against the two pending the result of their drug test.