BACOLOD City – A street cleaner in this city was nabbed in a drug buy-bust operation in a subdivision in Barangay Taculing on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 27.
Mary Nessa Ong, 40, married and a resident of Barangay 22, was apprehended by joint operatives of the Regional Police Drug Enforcement Unit and Bacolod City Police Station 6.
Police also seized 100 grams of suspected shabu worth P680,000, three cellular phones, and P1,100 cash.
Ong was previously a detainee in the similar case, violation of Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, but was released from jail through a plea bargaining agreement, police said./PN