BAGUIO CITY – A 35-year old driver was arrested by combined police operatives and intelligence agents after having found in his possession alleged shabu and assorted drug paraphernalia during a buy bust operation in front of a hardware along Bokawkan Road, here, Tuesday.
Senior Superintendent George D. Daskeo, City Director of the Baguio City Police Office, identified the arrested individual as Rufino Yamoyam Soriano III, 35 years old, married, driver, and resident of Private Road, Kitma, Baguio City.
Confiscated from his possession were one transparent heat sealed plastic sachet containing white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu weighing approximately 1.8 grams with DDB value of P10,800.00; one transparent heat sealed sachet containing white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu weighing approximately 5 grams with DDB value of P30,000.00; one Samsung cellular phone; and buy bust money amounting to P4,000.00.
The arrested individual and the confiscated pieces of evidence were subsequently brought to the BCPO headquarters for documentation awaiting the preparation and filing of the appropriate charges against him before the city prosecutor’s office.
By Dexter A. See