LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – A 32-year old man was arrested by combined police personnel and anti-narcotics agents after having allegedly found in his possession shabu during an anti-drug operation at Betag, here, recently.
Police authorities identified the arrested individual as Ferdinand L. Estrada, 32 years old and a resident of Tapapan, Bauko, Mt. Province.
Initial police investigation showed that the police operatives were conducting an operation against an alleged unreturned rented vehicle when they chanced upon 3 individuals, including the suspect, who were having a drinking spree and inquired about the aforesaid vehicle.
However, the suspect allegedly dropped in item that was rolled in a tissue that prompted the operatives to pick the same up and eventually discovered that the rolled tissue contained 3 heat sealed sachets containing alleged shabu with a still undetermined market value.
The arrested suspect was immediately brought to the La Trinidad Municipal Police Station for documentation and for the preparation of the appropriate charges against him before the provincial prosecutor’s office.
By Dexter A. See