TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan—Joint elements of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Cagayan Valley, local and provincial police have arrested an alleged drug pusher from Cavite who carried over P400,000 worth of suspected shabu after an operation in Bambang, Nueva Vizcaya.
Laurefel P. Gabales, Regional Director of PDEA Region 2, said authorities arrested Jessie Tabing alias “Jetong,” 47, a resident of Imus, Cavite.
PDEA Regional Office 2 operatives, the Nueva Vizcaya Police Investigation Bureau, Police Provincial Office, Drug Enforcement Unit, and the Bambang Police Station spent a month gathering intelligence and surveillance before arresting Tabing in a buy-bust operation along Maharlika Highway in Barangay Homestead, Bambang, Gabales said.
Confiscated from the suspect were a plastic sachet of suspected shabu and another pack weighing 74 grams of the alleged illegal drug, with a street value of nearly half a million pesos.