LACUB, Abra – A 32-year old miner was arrested by combined police operatives and anti-narcotics agents during the conduct of a police checkpoint at Poblacion, here, Thursday dawn.
Senior Superintendent Antonio Bartolome, provincial director of the Abra Provincial Police Office, identified the arrested drug courier as Bonifacio Manzano Garcia alias Boni, 32, married, miner and a resident of Poblacion, Lacub, Abra.
Confiscated from his possession were several plastics of transparent sachet containing white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu.
The arrested drug courier was immediately brought to the Lacub Municipal Police Station for documentation and the subsequent filing of the appropriate charges of violation of the provisions of Republic Act (RA) 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Law against him.
By Dexter A. See