Three separate anti-drug operations led to the arrest of five suspects and the confiscation of P2.35 million worth of suspected shabu, the Bacolod City Police Office said in a report yesterday.

At almost 6:00 p.m. on Monday, January 8, a buy-bust at the Old Bacolod Airport runway in Barangay Singcang-Airport caused the arrest of suspects Mark Anthony Sorongon, 19 years old, and Anthony Calantas, 31 years old, tagged as high-value individuals.

They sold a sachet of suspected shabu worth P10,000 to an undercover police officer and yielded six big and three knot-tied plastic sachets of the same prohibited substance, weighing about 180 grams.

Valued at P6,800 per gram, the seized illegal drugs were worth P1.224 million.

On the night of January 6, suspects Zaldy Tarug and Jessa Quillan were also arrested for selling suspected shabu worth P500 in Capitol Subdivision in Barangay Granada.

Operatives recovered from their possession 21 sachets of suspected shabu, weighing 86 grams, with a standard drug price of P584,800.

Also, Lizel Flore, 40 years old, was apprehended in Purok Neptune, Barangay Singcang-Airport, on the afternoon of January 5.

She yielded 76 grams of suspected shabu valued at P516,000.

Flore’s partner, Romeo Val Pagaduan, who was also the subject of the operation, evaded arrest. (PNA)