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BACOLOD City – Police arrested a laborer in a drug buy-bust operation in Purok San Flower, Barangay Poblacion, Bago City, Negros Occidental.
The 46-year-old Armel Gomez was a resident of the village.
He sold a sachet of suspected shabu to a poseur-buyer for P300, a police report showed.
Three more sachets of the prohibited substance were seized from Gomez around 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 11, the police added.
Detained in the lockup facility of the Bago City police station, the suspect faces a charge for violation of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002./PN
