AUTHORITIES arrested a construction worker Saturday in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Kauswagan, this city.
City Police Director Aaron Mandia identified the suspect as Argie Tablando, 37, single, and a resident of Sitio Lagpan of the said barangay.
Tablando, who was tagged by authorities as the number 3 most wanted person at the city and Misamis Oriental level, was arrested by elements of Agora police station headed by Police Capt. Ernesto Sanchez together with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Administration-10 at Sunrise Village of the same barangay at 10:45 pm.
Confiscated from his possession was a sling bag containing a big rectangular heat-sealed transparent plastic sachet containing a white crystalline substance believed to be shabu with an estimated street value of P34,000, a mobile phone, and P1,000 marked money used in the operation.
The suspect is now temporarily detained at the Agora police station mini-cell awaiting the formal filing of the appropriate charge.
