BY RHENJIE MARIE CALANTAS
ILOILO City – A 25-year-old man faces charges for violation of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2022.
Joewen Lo was arrested in a drug buy-bust operation in Barangay Hibao-an Sur, Mandurriao district around 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 26.
He sold a sachet of suspected shabu to a poseur buyer in exchange for P2,100, police said.
Officers of the Mandurriao police station’s Station Drug Enforcement Team recovered a total of seven sachets of suspected shabu weighing around one gram and with a standard market value of P6,800.
According to Police Lieutenant Benjie Dicen, deputy station commander of the Mandurriao police station, they have been monitoring Lo for several months. He was classified a street level individual.
The suspect was detained at the Mandurriao police station./PN