CAMP MAJOR BADO DANGWA, La Trinidad – A cloth seller listed as Street Level Individual of the Directorate for Intelligence for 2021, was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Guisad Surong, Baguio City on April 7, 2021.
According to reports from Baguio City Police Office Camdas Police Station (PS2), a confidential informant reported to the office that a certain Criselda is looking for someone to purchase suspected shabu.
Validations and further investigations conducted by BCPO PS2 revealed that the suspect is allegedly selling illegal drugs to drivers and minors along Magsaysay and Kayang Palengke.
A buy-bust was then conducted leading to the arrest of the suspect identified as Criselda Lanoza Nasocwaw, 35, a resident of Guisad Surong, Baguio City after an undercover police poseur-buyer was able to purchase a sachet of suspected shabu weighing about 0.8 gram worth Php 5,500.00 from the suspect.
Operatives recovered the buy-bust money and one keypad cellphone used by the suspect in the transaction.
Onsite inventory of confiscated items was witnessed by Kagawad Rodel Benaldo, Bombo Janice Denis, and Prosecutor Don Immanuel VC Vergara.
Recovered drug evidence was brought to BCPO Crime Laboratory for examination while a case for violation of Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 is being readied against Nasocwaw, who is now detained and waiting for her Swab result at Police Station 2.