Minor, five others fall in drug bust

A police officer conducts inventory on the P102,000 worth of suspected shabu seized in a buy-bust in Barangay 5, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental Wednesday. (Photo courtesy of San Carlos City Police Station)

By Glazyl Y. Masculino

BACOLOD City – Police arrested six persons, including a 15-year-old boy, in a buy-bust in Barangay 5, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental last Wednesday.

Regional Special Enforcement Team along with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), and San Carlos City Police Station conducted the operation against Roselyn Mori, 43, of Barangay 6.

Five other individuals were caught during the operation.

Authorities recovered from them 15 grams of suspected shabu worth P102,000, drug paraphernalia, and the P2,500 marked money.

In Bago City, P40,800 worth of suspected shabu was also seized from a man in a buy-bust in Barangay Lag-asan last Wednesday.

In Bacolod, a man also allegedly yielded P20,400 worth of the same contraband in a drug bust in Barangay 40 here yesterday.