MANGALDAN, Pangasinan March 31 – A 31-year old pedicab driver was arrested by combined police operatives and anti-narcotics agents after having in his possession suspected shabu during the implementation of a search warrant in his residence at Ydia St., Guilig, here, recently.
Police authorities identified the arrested individual as Melvin Soriano Layda alias “Mata”, 31, married, pedicab driver and resident of Ydia St. barangay Guilig, Mangaldan, Pangasinan.
Confiscated from the suspect by the operating troops were 13 plastic sachets containing suspected shabu and assorted drug paraphernalia.
The arrested individual and the confiscated pieces of evidence were brought to the Mangaldan Municipal Police Station for documentation prior to the filing of the appropriate charges against him before the provincial prosecutor’s office.
By Dexter A. See