A SUSPECTED drug pusher identified as alias Tamay was arrested during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Sta. Rosa-Laguna, Guimbal, Iloilo at 12:13 a.m. on June 8, 2025.
Police confiscated more or less 4.5 grams of suspected shabu with an estimated market value of P30,600.
The suspect, 34, born in Negros Occidental, male, is single, a high school level dropout, and works as a maintenance staff.
According to the Guimbal Municipal Police Station (MPS), the operation resulted in the arrest of the suspect, a caretaker from Sta. Fe Lumina, Villa Arevalo, Iloilo City.
Police reported that the suspect was arrested after handing one sachet of suspected shabu to a poseur buyer.
Authorities recovered the following items from the suspect’s possession: one small heat-sealed transparent plastic sachet containing suspected shabu (buy-bust item), one big heat-sealed sachet also containing suspected shabu (for possession), buy-bust money worth P1,400, and one black coin purse.
The inventory of seized items was conducted on-site and witnessed by Barangay Councilor Maria Gentapanan of Barangay Balantad Fruto, Guimbal, Iloilo, and media representative Rhuel Senon of Radyo Todo, Iloilo.
He is now under police custody for filing of appropriate charges. (Leo Solinap/SunStar Philippines)