ABOUT P340,000 worth of suspected shabu weighing about 50 grams was seized from a tricycle driver at his residence in La Carlota City, Negros Occidental past 10 p.m. Tuesday, May 24, 2022.

Lieutenant Colonel Lowell Garinganao, who is the officer-in-charge of La Carlota Component City Police, said Joven Capistrano, 26, of Catalonia Street at Villa Cardiad Subdivision in the locality’s Barangay III is enlisted as number four in their illegal drug watch list.

Capistrano was arrested after he sold a plastic sachet containing the banned substance to a police poseur, Garinganao said.

The suspect has been monitored by police operatives for a couple of months before his arrest, he said.

Recovered from Capistrano were 17 sachets containing suspected shabu, the P500 mark money, a cellular phone and other non-drug items, police records showed.

Meanwhile, in San Carlos, local police arrested Michael Macuel, 35, and Herminigildo Panoncillo, 60, both of Purok Tindalo in the city’s Barangay 1 in a drug buy-bust operation past 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Some 14 sachets of suspected shabu weighing 12 grams and valued at P81,600, and the P900 buy-bust money were recovered from their possession upon their arrests.

“I commend our operatives for their dedication and hard work in implementing our intensified campaign against illegal drugs,” Police Regional Office Western Visayas Director Brigadier General Flynn Dongbo said.

He said that the policemen’s effort has a significant contribution to their goal of cleansing the communities from the menace of illegal drugs.