BAGUIO CITY – Three suspected drug personalities were arrested by combined police operatives and anti-narcotics agents after having found in their possession alleged illegal drugs and assorted drug paraphernalia during a buy bust operation along Legarda Road, here, Thursday afternoon.
Police authorities identified the arrested drug personalities as Erwin Dela Pena Roc, 25, single, jobless, native of Sinapangan Bangued, Abra and resident of Barangay Lachesa Irisan, Baguio City; Marvin Salvador Valenton, 34, single, roomboy, native of Laoag City, Ilocos Norte, resident of Lopez Jaena Street, Baguio City; and Mark Anthony Phola Carino, 21, jobless, native and resident of Castro Street Crystal Cave, Baguio City.
Confiscated by the operating troops from the possession of the said individuals were six sachets containing suspected shabu with a still undetermined value and the P500 buy bust money.
The arrested new drug personalities and the confiscated pieces of evidence were brought to the BCPO headquarters for documentation prior to their turnover to the city prosecutor’s office for the filing of the appropriate charges against them.
By Dexter A. See