LA TRINIDAD, Benguet January 23 – A 15-year old minor was arrested by combined police operatives and anti-narcotics agents after having found in his possession alleged shabu during an anti-drug operation in a liquor establishment at Km. 3, here, Sunday night.
Police authorities described the arrested individual as 15 years old, elementary graduate and a resident of Km. 3, Stonehill, Balili, La Trinidad, Benguet.
Initial police investigation showed the suspect was collared by the members of the operating team after he was frisked and found to be in possession of two sachets containing suspected shabu inside his black coin purse.
The arrested individual and the confiscated pieces of evidence were brought to the La Trinidad Municipal Police Station for documentation awaiting the filing of appropriate charges against him before the provincial prosecutor’s office.
By Dexter A. See