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+ February 23, 2021 FIVE suspects, including a government employee, were apprehended in separate anti-drug operations in Eastern Visayas towns from February 19 to 22, 2021.
Operatives of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), together with personnel of Samar Police Provincial Police Office-Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit (PDEU) and Calbayog City Police Station, arrested a government worker named Arturo Aquino Hemplo, a high-value target (HVT), on February 22 in Calbayog City.
Confiscated during the operation were four sachets containing substance believed to be shabu weighing 3.9012 grams, based on PDEA chemistry report.
The drug items have an estimated market value of P26,528.
In Maasin City, the PDEA, along with PDEU, Maasin City Police, and Southern Leyte Maritime Police, arrested an HVT identified as Jose Alvin Gaviola.
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Photo from PDEA-Eastern Visayas January 31, 2021 NINE persons allegedly linked to the illegal drug trade were arrested in separate sting operations around Eastern Visayas from January 28 to 31, 2021.
In Ormoc City, anti-drug operatives nabbed 37-year-old high-value individual Ronaldo Baltazar around 3:20 p.m. Sunday, January 31.
A poseur buyer was able to buy a sachet containing suspected shabu in exchange for P1,500.
Police also confiscated nine sachets containing suspected shabu weighing an estimated 6 grams with a Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) value of P40,800, buy-bust money, and other personal items.
Around 4 p.m. Sunday, police in Tacloban City also arrested three suspects identified as Romeo Quinto Mista, Daniel Mista Reubal, and Alfonso Mista Acebo.
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Photo from PDEA-Eastern Visayas January 17, 2021 TWO suspected drug personalities were arrested in separate buy-bust operations in Eastern Visayas on Saturday, January 16, 2021.
In Hilongos, Leyte, anti-narcotics agents and police collared an alleged high-value individual named Emerito Zarco.
Confiscated during the operation were six sachets of shabu weighing 1.7473 grams, based on a chemistry report of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in the region.
The drug evidence had an estimated market value of P11,881, according to PDEA.
Operatives from Tacloban City Police Office-City Drug Enforcement Unit led by Lieutenant Anthony-Re Amora, under the supervision of Edwin Cañamaque, also arrested Mark Anthony Malinao Mercado.
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