By AL RICALDE
Correspondent /
POLICE arrested a teenager who allegedly served as a drug courier, and seized over half a million pesos worth of suspected shabu in Upper Carmen on Thursday night.
Authorities identified the suspect as 18-year old Alinair Dipatuan of Pagayawan, Lanao del Sur.
Senior Insp. Glenn Abalde, chief of the Divisoria police, said Dipatuan was arrested during a buy-bust operation on Masterson Ave. in Upper Carmen around 10:30 pm.
Two large packs of suspected shabu, weighing 105 grams and estimated to command a price of P630,000, was seized from Dipatuan.
Dipatuan, according to Abalde, was just a courier of a “big-time” drug pusher.
“Naa siyay agalon, tig-deliver lang siya pero mag-conduct pa mi og investigation para mahibaw-an kinsa iyang agalon,” Abalde said.
Earlier the same day, two suspected drug pushers were arrested by the police in Barangay Macasandig.
Police said suspects Michael Andrada, 40, of Barangay Indahag, and Alven Bartolome,44, of Gango, Libona, Bukidnon are now detained after they allegedly yielded 1.5 grams of shabu with a street value of about P9 thousand.
Police claimed to have seized drug paraphernalia, marked money and a motorcycle.
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