18 busted for drugs

A total of 18 drug personalities were collared Saturday in separate police operations in the cities of Makati, Taguig and Manila.

Based on police reports, three alleged drug pushers were arrested in a buy-bust operation along J.B Roxas Street in Barangay Olympia around 6:00 p.m.

Anti-crime operations of the Manila Police District netted seven drug suspects.

Nabbed were Tetchie Alejandro, John Michael Siron and Ara Espiritu. Seized from the suspects were four sachets of shabu and P200 marked money.

Meanwhile, Taguig Police chief Senior Supt. Alexander Santos reported the arrest of eight drug users in the city on Saturday.

Patrolling cops apprehended Ramirenzo Frondoza and John Mark Angeles around 3:00 a.m. along Hen. Luna Street in Baranga Ususan. The police seized from them 1.8 grams of shabu in two sachets.

Around 4:30 a.m. the police arrested Gideon Ordona along Balimbing Street in Barangay Katuparan. He yielded two sachets of shabu weighing 0.3 grams.

About 6:00 p.m. the same day Taguig’s Drug Enforcement Unit headed by Senior Insp. Salvador Camacho nabbed Jose Valentino de Castro, Ranilo Bradecina, Rolly Ordoñez, Christian Paulino and Jolly Cabrera inside a house in No. 21 Carlos Street in Barangay Tuktukan.

Camacho’s team confiscated four sachets containing 0.4 grams of shabu, one sachet with traces of shabu, one glass water pipe, one aluminum foil strip and two disposable lighters.

Meanwhile, anti-crime operations of the Manila Police District netted seven drug suspects.

Among the arrested suspects was 25-year-old Marvin Usi, a resident of No. 149 F Banaag Pineda, Pasig City.

Items seized from Usi include three plastic sachets of high-grade marijuana and two P500-bills used as buy-bust money.

Also nabbed was Roel Llagas male, 40 years old, single, construction worker and resident of 639 Mercedes Building, Gastambide St., Sampaloc, Manila. Authorities discovered he was carrying a plastic sachet containing shabu.