A tricycle driver was arrested Tuesday morning following a buy-bust operation at Purok Balinghoy in Bago City’s Barangay Poblacion. Authorities identified the arrested suspect as 36-year-old Rene Pagayon, who is temporarily residing in the said neighborhood.
The Bago City Drug Enforcement Unit confiscated three plastic sachets of suspected shabu, P300 in buy-bust money, drug paraphernalia, P400 in cash proceeds, and a mobile phone.
Pagayon is detained at the Bago City City Police Station and charged in violation of RA 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002./WDJ