Authorities confiscated P340,000 worth of alleged shabu and arrested a newly identified high-value drug suspect during a buy-bust operation in Pasig City early Friday morning.

Operatives of the Pasig City Police Station's Drug Enforcement Unit nabbed the 24-year-old suspect, identified only as alias Kevin, a resident of Taguig City, in the operation conducted at Jimenez Street, Barangay Kalawaan, Pasig City at about 1 p.m.

Confiscated from the suspect were 11 pieces heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets containing suspected shabu weighing more or less 50 grams with an estimated street value of P340,000, a brown rectangular coin purse, P200 buy-bust money, and the P8,000 boodle money.

The suspect, now detained at the Pasig City Police Station custodial facility, will be charged for violation with Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.