LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Two persons were arrested by combined police operatives and anti-narcotics agents after having found in their possession suspected illegal drugs during a buy bust operation at Polacion, here, Tuesday evening.
Chief Inspector Benson Macli-ing, chief of the La Trinidad Municipal Police station, identified the arrested individuals as Lyndon Renz Chalano Jacinto, 21, single, laborer, and a resident at AE-62 Western Buyagan, La Trinidad, Benguet; and Emil Rolloda Bernal, 32, single, technician, and a resident at AE-07 Western Buyagan, La Trinidad, Benguet.
Confiscated from Jacinto were one heat sealed sachet containing alleged shabu with undetermined weight, cash money, including the buy bust money amounting to P720 and one touch screen cellular phone while seized from Bernal were three heat sealed sachets containing suspected shabu, one cellular phone, and one cigarette pack.
The arrested individuals and the confiscated pieces of evidence were brought to the La Trinidad Municipal Police Station for documentation awaiting the filing of the appropriate charges against him before the provincial prosecutor’s office.
By Dexter A. See