Young woman yields P476-K worth of ‘shabu’

By Glazyl Y. Masculino

BACOLOD City – The Regional Police Drug Enforcement Unit (RPDEU)-6 seized about 70 grams of suspected shabu worth P476,000 from a 22-year-old woman in a buy-bust at the old public cemetery in Barangay Sampinit, Bago City, Negros Occidental last Tuesday.

Police identified the suspect as Rica Sharina Ginete of Valladolid town. Also confiscated from her was the P27,000 marked money.

The operation was in coordination with Bago City Police Station and the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) anti-illegal drugs team.

Police Lieutenant Colonel Joem Malong, Bago City police chief, said Ginete’s alleged illegal activities were under monitoring for several weeks after she was named by an individual previously arrested by the police during an anti-illegal drugs operation.

Police received information that she had been allegedly selling illegal drugs in the cities of Bago, Kabankalan, and La Carlota, and the towns of Valladolid and Pulupandan, according to Police Regional Office (PRO)-6.

Malong said Ginete reportedly sourced her stock from Bacolod. But, she has yet to reveal her actual source.

The PRO-6 said that Ginete was tagged as a high value individual (HVI).

Ginete has yet to comment on the allegations against her.