The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered the acquittal and immediate release from jail of two women who were arrested in 2012 in a buy-bust operation conducted by the police and convicted by the trial court in 2013 of peddling illegal drugs.
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+ January 22, 2021 AN ESTIMATED P20,800 worth of shabu or methamphetamine hydrochloride was seized in separate anti-drug operations of Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) in Bacolod City Thursday evening, January 21.
The operation also led to the arrest of Remo Togores, 34, of Barangay Singcang-Airport; and Edgar Lapitan and Jay Lloyd Lobaton, both residents of Barangay Estefania.
Police Lieutenant Colonel Ariel Pico, spokesperson of BCPO, said Togores was arrested by operatives of Police Station 8 after he sold a sachet of shabu to a police undercover in Purok Mainabyanon, Barangay Singcang-Airport around 11:30 p.m.
Police recovered from Togores s possession six sachets of shabu weighing two grams with estimated market value of P14,000, the P500 marked money and a coin purse.
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Photo from PDEA-Eastern Visayas January 17, 2021 TWO suspected drug personalities were arrested in separate buy-bust operations in Eastern Visayas on Saturday, January 16, 2021.
In Hilongos, Leyte, anti-narcotics agents and police collared an alleged high-value individual named Emerito Zarco.
Confiscated during the operation were six sachets of shabu weighing 1.7473 grams, based on a chemistry report of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in the region.
The drug evidence had an estimated market value of P11,881, according to PDEA.
Operatives from Tacloban City Police Office-City Drug Enforcement Unit led by Lieutenant Anthony-Re Amora, under the supervision of Edwin Cañamaque, also arrested Mark Anthony Malinao Mercado.
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