ORMOC CITY-Two individuals, including one listed in the regional priority target list, were arrested during a buy-bust operation conducted by the station drug enforcement team of the local police of Naval, Biliran and the provincial drug enforcement unit of Biliran on Monday, July 1, at around 7:22 pm in Barangay Santissimo Rosario, Naval.
The suspects were identified as Jover Denampo, 35, single and jobless, who is listed as Rank 10 on the regional priority target list of the PNP, and Eric Regala, 38, a pedicab driver with a live-in partner, who is listed as a street level individual (SLI). Both are residents of Brgy.Santissimo Rosario.
Recovered from Denampo was one sachet containing a white crystalline substance purchased by an operative for P500.
During the body search conducted in the presence of law-mandated witnesses, the searching officer recovered five more sachets containing a white crystalline substance also suspected to be shabu.
From Regala, the searching officer recovered one piece of folded white paper used as a wrapper for two heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets containing a white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu, one improvised blue lighter with rolled foil, and one improvised glass tooter with traces of suspected illegal drugs.
All confiscated suspected drug evidence has an estimated weight of approximately 3.457 grams and an estimated Dangerous Drug Board value of more than P23,507.
Charges for violation of Article II of RA 9165, the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, have been filed against the two suspects, who are temporarily detained at the locked-up cell of the naval municipal police station. (ROBERT DEJON)
