CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Aug. 15 (PNA) – Drug enforcement agents and the local police seized Php 700,000 worth of suspected illegal drugs, better known as ‘shabu,’ during a drug buy-bust operation here Friday.
Wilkins Villanueva, the regional director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), said Saturday that the operatives seized the illegal drugs from suspect identified as Mark Anthony Izon Roa, 34.
PDEA agents, in coordination with the local police here, seized about 300 grams of suspected “shabu” from Roa during a drug buy-bust operation in Yacapin-Burgos Streets here.
Villanueva said that the anti-illegal drug agency listed Roa as among drug personalities in Cagayan De Oro City.
According to Villanueva, the seized illegal drug would be subjected to laboratory examination while the suspect is now in the detention cell of the PDEA regional office in Cagayan De Oro City,; while law enforcers are preparing charges with violation of the anti-drug law against the suspect. (PNA)