A buy-bust operation conducted by operatives from the Quezon City Police District led to the arrest of two individuals who yielded hundreds of thousands of pesos worth of shabu.

The QCPD said that the two suspects were caught in the act of selling the drugs in Barangay Santo Niño last Thursday.

"A police officer acted as a poseur buyer and bought P1,500 worth of shabu from the suspect, and at the given pre-arranged signal, they were apprehended," said the police.

Authorities confiscated 40 grams of suspected shabu worth P272,000, a cellphone, two coin purses and the drug-bust money.

P/Brig. Gen. Redrico Maranan, QCPD district director, said the anti-illegal drugs operations "would greatly contribute in lessening the drug proliferation in our area of responsibility."

The suspects are currently detained at Galas Police Station 11 and will face charges for violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.