JOINT operatives of the Philippine National Police and Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit arrested Wednesday, September 18, a university worker for illegal drugs possession.
Authorities identified the suspect as Ted Paulo Clemencio, 34, married, administrative aide of a university in Carigara, Leyte.
Clemencio, who was nabbed in a drug bust, has been in the drug watchlist of the town police.
The drug bust happened around 6:20 p.m. Wednesday in a barangay in Carigara.
The operatives purchased from the suspect one heat-sealed transparent plastic sachet of shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride).
Also confiscated from his possession were three heat-sealed transparent sachets of shabu and P500 marked money. (Ronald Reyes/SunStar Philippines)