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7 drug peddlers nabbed in Pampanga towns

Princess Clea Arcellaz

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- The Pampanga Police Provincial Office on Tuesday, April 17, arrested seven suspected drug personalities in separate drug operations conducted in the province.

In the anti-illegal drug operation launched by Apalit police at Sitio Sampaga, Barangay San Vicente, the operating team apprehended one suspected drug peddler identified as Ogie De Jesus, 35, where two pieces small heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets containing suspected shabu (Methamphetamine) and P500 marked money were confiscated.

Likewise, operatives of the City of San Fernando police station arrested three persons identified as Joseph Gonzales, 54, Prince Batac, 44, and Rosario Bautista, 34 during a buy-bust operation conducted along Jose Abad Santos Avenue.

Seized from their possessions were eighteen pieces of heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets containing suspected shabu with an estimated street value of P15,000, P500 marked money used in the operations and other personal belongings.

Personnel of Porac police stations also conducted a buy-bust operation in Barangay Mancatian, Porac, Pampanga which resulted to the arrest of another three drug personalities identified as Joseph Tokero, 39, Arnold Villanueva, 44, and Jayson Dungca, 36.

Operation also led to the confiscation of six pieces heat sealed plastic sachets containing suspected shabu, P500 marked money used in operation and various drug paraphernalia.

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