Five persons were arrested while almost P1.3 million in suspected shabu were seized in four separate buy-busts in Bacolod City over the weekend, reports from the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) on Monday, August 21, showed.

“These are positive results as we strengthen the war on drugs by having intelligence-driven anti-drug operations,” Colonel Noel Aliño, city police director, said in a statement.

On Sunday night, August 20, operatives of Police Station 5 apprehended Wilvie Tulbo Leduna, 47 years old, at Gate 2 of Patricia Homes Subdivision in Barangay Granada.

Leduna, a resident of Barangay Villamonte and tagged as a street-level individual (SLI), sold P300 worth of suspected shabu to an undercover policeman and yielded six grams of the prohibited substance worth P40,800.

In the neighboring Barangay Vista Alegre, Alfredo Pagot Aplasca Jr., 57 years old, was arrested by personnel of the City Drug Enforcement Unit during a buy-bust on Saturday, August 19.

A police poseur-buyer bought a sachet of suspected shabu for P1,000 from the suspect, considered a high-value individual, at his residence around 4:25 a.m.

Operatives also seized from his possession two knot-tied and seven sachets of suspected shabu, weighing 154 grams, valued at P1.04 million.

Around 1:45 a.m. on Saturday, the drug enforcement team of Police Station 2 also arrested two SLIs in Barangay 1.

The suspects were identified as Val Helbert Bandiola Latorre, 23 years old, and his 18-year-old male companion, both residents of the village.

After they sold a sachet of suspected shabu worth P500 to an undercover policeman, operatives recovered from their possession one big and five elongated sachets of suspected shabu, weighing seven grams, with a standard drug price of P47,600.

On Friday night, August 18, a construction worker was apprehended by personnel of Police Station 5 during a sting operation in Greensville 2, Barangay Villamonte.

Jose Perez Godinez, 39 years old, of Barangay Estefania sold a sachet of suspected shabu for P500 to a police poseur-buyer around 10:30 p.m.

He also yielded three small and 14 medium sachets of the same prohibited substance, weighing 20 grams, valued at P136,000.

Charges for violation of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 are being readied against the suspects. (PNA)