Authorities arrested a 16-year-old suspected drug peddler and seized more than P1 million worth of illegal drugs in a buy-bust operation in Pasig City early Friday morning.

Nabbed in the operation was identified only as alias Ken, a resident of Pinagbuhatan, Pasig City, and is now listed as a newly identified high-value individual.

The child in conflict with the law was apprehended in an anti-illegal drug operation conducted by the Eastern Police District's Drug Enforcement Unit at about 3 a.m. in Barangay Pinagbuhatan, Pasig City.

The buy-bust operation stemmed from a report by a private informant regarding the illegal drug activities of alias Ken at the given address. Operatives immediately conducted surveillance and validation, obtaining positive information. They then executed the buy-bust operation that resulted in the arrest of the child in conflict with the law.

Confiscated were 30 heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets containing a white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu, with an estimated weight of more or less 191.1 grams and a standard drug price of P1,302,880, as well as one heat-sealed transparent plastic sachet containing suspected dried marijuana leaves (kush) weighing about 15.8 grams with a standard drug price of P23,700.

Charges for violation of Republic Act 9165, otherwise known as the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, will be filed against him before the Pasig City Prosecutor’s Office.

The child in conflict with the law is now under the custody of CSWD Pasig City while pertinent documents are being prepared for inquest proceedings.