Four persons were arrested and P95,200 worth of suspect shabu was seized in separate buy-but operations in Bacolod City and E.B. Magalona town, Negros Occidental, on Saturday and Sunday, August 19 and 20, the police reported.
The police said they seized seven grams of suspected shabu worth P47,600 from Val Helbert Latorre, 23, and a teenager in a buy-bust operation in Barangay 1, Bacolod City, early Saturday morning.
Various drug paraphernalia were also recovered from the suspects, the police said.
Wilvie Leduna, 47, was also arrested in a buy-bust operation in Brgy. Granada, Bacolod City, Sunday night, the police added.
The police recovered six grams of suspected shabu valued at P40,800 from him.
An 18-year-old man was also arrested in a buy-bust operation in Brgy. Madalag, E.B. Magalona town, on Sunday.
Recovered from him was a gram of suspected shabu worth P6,800, the police.
During the buy-bust operation relatives of the 18-year-old , Edwin and Emanuel King, intervened resulting in the injury of a policeman, the police reported.
The two were arrested for alleged obstruction of justice and direct assault upon agent of authority, the police added.
They are now under the custody of the E.B. Magalona Police.*