‘Drug peddlers’ busted in Roxas

Recovered items during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Banica, Roxas City on Monday. GLENN BEUP/PN
Recovered items during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Banica, Roxas City on Monday. GLENN BEUP/PN

ROXAS City – Eleven grams of suspected shabu valued at around P145,000 was seized in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Banica.   

Master Sergeant Ramil Arcangeles, spokesperson of the Roxas City police station, identified the suspects as 32-year-old Anthony Asiatico and 21-year-old Jesa Acutillar, both residents of this city.        

Officers of the Roxas City police station staged the entrapment operation which led to the arrest of the suspects around 11 p.m. on Monday.    

When frisked, Asiatico yielded an unlicensed gun with live bullets, police said.   

“Asiatico was arrested twice in the past for selling shabu, but those cases were dismissed by the court,” Arcangeles told Panay News.  

“Asiatico was placed under surveillance for more than three weeks before we staged the operation,” he said.                    

The suspects were detained in the lockup cell of the Roxas City police station, facing charges./PN

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