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BACOLOD City – Fourteen sachets of suspected shabu valued at around P19,120 were seized in a buy-bust operation in Barangay 16.
Antidrug operatives of Police Station 1 staged the entrapment operation that lead to the arrest of 26-year-old Alfonso Lizares.
The suspect sold a sachet of the prohibited substance to an undercover officer around 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 10, police said.
The suspect was detained and charged with violation of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002./PN
