A man with suspected shabu worth P292,400 and a firearm was arrested in a buy-bust operation at Purok Makawiwili, Brgy. Caradio-an, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental, on Monday, March 4, the police reported.
Arrested was a 27-year-old man from Purok Makawiwili, whose name was withheld by the police.
Seized from him were 10 heat-sealed sachets of suspected shabu weighing 43 grams, an improvised firearm or pen gun, and a live cartridge of a 9-millimeter gun, the police reported.
The suspect is now detained at the Himamaylan City Police Station while the drug evidence was brought to PNP Provincial Forensic Unit for examination.*