FOUR persons, including a drug surrenderer, were arrested while some P97,000 worth of suspected shabu seized in separate anti-drug operations in Zamboanga Peninsula, the police reported Saturday, February 6, 2021.

Police Captain Edwin Duco, Police Regional Office (PRO)-Zamboanga Peninsula information officer, identified the arrested suspects as follows: Jose Armando Estabas Cabrera Jr., 30; Niño Uro Enriquez, 19; Aurello Cabasingan Cabarles, 38; and, Billy Cariaga Lee, 42.

Duco said that Cabrera, who is also an online seller, was arrested in a buy-bust around 3:30 p.m. Friday, February 5, 2021 in Purok Mirasol in Poblacion village, Ipil, the capital of Zamboanga Sibugay.

Duco said recovered from the possession of Cabrera were some P34,000 worth of suspected shabu and P300 marked money.

Duco said that Enriquez was caught in possession of some P3,000 worth of suspected shabu and P300 marked money in a buy-bust operation around 5 p.m. Friday at Zone II in Mercedes village, this city.

He said that Cabarles and Lee, both newly-identified drug suspects, were arrested in a buy-bust around 10 p.m. Friday in Recodo village.

He said the arresting team seized from the two suspects some P60,000 worth of suspected shabu packed in 13 heat-sealed plastic sachets and P200 marked money.

He said the suspects were detained while appropriate charges are set to be filed against them. (SunStar Zamboanga)