Police bust yields P1M in narcotics

Police arrested yesterday three suspected drug pushers in front of the Quintana Hotel along Bacoor Boulevard, Barangay Bayanan in Bacoor City after yielding P1.028 million worth of drugs during a buy-bust operation.

Supt. Vicente Cabatingan, Bacoor City police chief, identified the suspects as Ronel Depas Exequiel, alias Nel, 35, a driver from Sto. Niño Compound, Barangay Moonwalk, Las Piñas City; Jackylyn Paller Yosa, alias Klen or Jacky, 37 of Barangay Talon 3, Las Piñas City and Vergilio Lakalilaw de Mesa, alias Atoy, 44 also of Barangay Talon 3, Las Piñas City.

Cabatingan said the drug enforcement unit (DEU) team, led by Chief Insp. Ruben Ballera Jr., conducted the buy-bust operation with a policeman poseur buyer.

The suspects used a blue van without a plate number during the “transaction” in front of the Quintana Hotel.

Police enforcers swooped down on the drug peddlers and seized three more pieces of heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets containing suspected “shabu,” which have a combined weight of around 151.3 grams worth P1,028,840, a black body bag and a white Samsung cellphone.

The poseur buyer also confiscated from the suspect around 60 pieces of P1,000 bills in counterfeit money during the entrapment who connived with suspects Yosa and de Mesa during the transaction.

The police drug enforcers brought the suspects to the Bacoor police station in Barangay Talaba for investigation and proper disposition while the confiscated pieces of evidence were submitted to the PNP Crime Laboratory Office in Imus City for chemical analysis.

The suspects were also subjected to drug tests while the blue Adventure vehicle was brought to the city police station to be presented as evidence to the Provincial City Prosecutors Office.

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