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By Nitz Arancon
Correspondent

CAGAYAN de Oro City Police Office has filed charges for drug trafficking against six suspects before the City Prosecutor’s Office yesterday morning.

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Capt. Teodoro De Oro, chief of Lumbia Police Station said the six drug suspects were arrested in separate buy-bust operations in Lumbia and Macabalan on Wednesday.

De Oro said identified the suspects Kier John Lucero, 26, Leoniel Yabut, 23, both residents of Barangay Lapasan; and Joshua Butatil, 29, a resident of Hill Top, Barangay Carmen, this city.

He said Butatil was arrested in a buy-bust operation at around 10:10 pm Wednesday in the suspect’s hideout in Hill Top, Barangay Carmen. Seized for Butatil was suspected shabu with a street value of P14,000.

On the same day, Lucero and Yabut, De Oro added, were arrested in a separated buy-bust operation at 2:00 pm along Masterson Avenue, Upper Carmen, this city. Seized from the duo were suspected shabu worth P3,500.

In Barangay Macabalan, Senior M/Sgt. Nolasco Gaabucayan, intelligence chief of the Macabalan Police Station, identified the three other drug suspects charge for drug trafficking were Chuck Madronio Abonitalla, 41, Anthony Tare, and Clint Bermoy, all three suspects are residents of Barangay Macabalan.

Gaabucayan said the three drug suspects were apprehended selling illegal drugs while in a shabu session.

He said all three suspects were arrested at about 4:40 pm Wednesday.

Gaabucayan added that Abonitalla tried to flee but was cornered by responding police officers.

Confiscated from the three drug suspects were 10 sachets of suspected shabu weighing five grams and are valued at P15,000, four live bullets for a .45 caliber pistol, and various illegal drug paraphernalia..

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