MANILA: A drug suspect from San Pablo, Laguna was arrested in a sting operation in an uptown village here Monday night and yielded 10 kilograms of shabu valued at PHP68 million.

Maj. Jomar Dela Cerna, chief of the Regional Drug Enforcement Unit-Central Visayas based in Camp Sergio Osmen~a Sr., said the 30-year-old male suspect has a condominium unit registered under his name in this city.

He would stay here for a week before going back to Luzon, according to Dela Cerna.

‘The suspect is a high-value individual for his ability to dispose of kilos of shabu,’ he said in a statement Tuesday.

The police coordinated with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas to place the suspect under surveillance.

He was nabbed in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Kasambagan.

Records showed he was arrested, also for a drug case, sometime in June last year but availed of plea-bargaining agreement.

‘We have ongoing operations because he mentioned some persons during the custodial debriefing,’ Police Regional
Office 7 spokesperson Lt. Col. Gerard Ace Pelare told reporters.
Source: Philippines News Agency