By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga
Members of the Regional Special Operations Task Group-18 (RSOTG-18) conducted a buy-bust operation, yesterday, resulting in the arrest of a big-time drug dealer at PurokCasia, Barangay Gargato, Hinigaran, Negros Occidental.
Police identified the suspect as 30-year-old Jelo Ramos, a resident of Barangay 4, Osmeña Street of the said town.
In a press release issued by Police Regional Office-18 (PRO-18) last night, the operation, led by Police Superintendent Robert Limbawang, resulted in the arrest of the suspect after he handed one elongated sachet of suspected shabu worth P500 to an undercover police operative.
Following a search, the suspect further yielded nine more sachets of suspected shabu. Police also confiscated the suspect’s motorcycle.
Ramos is facing illegal drugs charges, and is detained at the Hinigaran Municipal Police Station./WDJ