Two persons, including a teenager, were arrested after two kilograms of suspected marijuana were seized from them in a buy-bust operation in Hacienda Najalin, Purok 5, Brgy. Nagasi, La Carlota City, Negros Occidental, on Tuesday, Oct. 22.
Arrested were two males, whose names were withheld by the police.
The police recovered from them 67 sachets of alleged marijuana weighing 2,000 grams with estimated street prevailing price of P240,000.
The recovered marijuana was sent to the Negros Occidental Provincial Forensic Unit (PFU) for examination.
The arrested persons are now under the custody of La Carlota police.*