8 suspects fall, P1M illegal drugs seized in Rizal drug busts
POLICE Regional Office 4-A (PRO 4-A) Director Brigadier General Jose Melencio C. Nartatez Jr., on Wednesday, announced the arrest of eight known drug personalities and confiscated nearly P1 million worth of shabu and marijuana in separate anti-narcotics operations in Rizal province last week.
According to the official, four suspects were arrested after they conspired to sell P840,000 worth of dried marijuana leaves to an undercover officer in P. Rodriguez Street in Barangay San Rafael in Rodriguez (formerly Montalban) municipality last Friday.
Nartatez said that operatives of the Rizal Police Provincial Office’s (PPO) Intelligence Unit and Drug Enforcement Unit under Colonel Dominic L. Baccay arrested the four suspects, all residents of Bgy. Rafael.
The arrest was triggered by information forwarded to the Rizal PPO regarding the presence of a group of marijuana traffickers in Bgy. San Rafael. During the sting, the four were arrested after they conspired with each other in selling the prohibited crops to a poseur.
Recovered from the suspects’ possession were some seven kilograms of marijuana, a digital weighing scale, and the buy-bust money topped by a marked bill.
Nartatez said that a 5th suspect, a “high-value individual” (HVI) in the Calabarzon (Cavite/Laguna/Batangas/Rizal/Quezon) region, was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Bgy. Cupang in Antipolo City.
The suspect yielded four plastic sachets containing ten grams of shabu worth P68,000.
The 6th drug suspect was arrested in another sting in Bgy. Banaba in San Mateo municipality on Saturday. Five plastic sachets containing an estimated P31,280 worth of shabu were confiscated from the suspect’s possession.
Two female suspects were arrested in a separate buy-bust operation in Bgy. Maly, also in San Mateo on the same afternoon. Recovered from the two were nearly seven grams of shabu worth around P48,000.
Nartatez said all suspects will face charges for violating Republic Act (RA) 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
“These are yet another notable accomplishment of our hardworking police operatives. As I have always said, to all pushers and drug addicts in [the] Calabarzon region, you have a chance to stop these illegal activities dahil walang idudulot na magandaang pagkalulong sa ilegal na droga,” the PRO 4-A director said.
