AUTHORITIES arrested two single moms after nearly half a million pesos worth of shabu were seized from their possession in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Canitoan Monday.
Police Executive Master Sgt. Christopher Ibanez, Regional Police Drug Enforcement Unit team leader, identified the suspects as Zarciebelle Phyca Dacer, single, 36; and Mary June Colon, single, 36, and both residing at Zone 10, Sitio Calaaanan of the said barangay, Cagayan de Oro City.
They were arrested at 6:10 pm at the said place.
Confiscated from them were six elongated heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets in different sizes containing a white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu, with an estimated street value of P408,000 and weighing 60 grams.
It was learned that Dacer has seven children under her care.
Both suspects are currently detained at the Maharlika detention cell while a complaint for violation of Republic Act 9165 is being prepared.