A person listed on the EB Magalona Municipal Police Station drugs watchlist was arrested last week along Jaime Reyes Street in the town’s Barangay Poblacion 1. Police identified the suspect as 36-year-old Arnold Arante, a resident of Purok Bag-ong Dalan in the town’s Barangay Tabingue.
He was earlier detained for violations of Section 11 of RA 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, which lists the penalties for the possession of certain illicit substances.
Police confiscated three sachets of suspected shabu with an estimated market value of P6,500 from the suspect, along with P500 in buy-bust money.
Arante is currently detained and charged anew in violation of RA 9165./WDJ