Dingras drug pusher nabbed in Laoag for drug trade

LAOAG CITY (March 11) – A village councilman from Dingras, Ilocos was arrested in a police buy-bust operation in Brgy. 23, of this city.

Supt. Edwin Balles, chief of police said the suspect is a resident of Barangay Mandaloque, Dingras but presently renting an apartment room here.

He was ranked No. 7 among the drug personalities in Dingras.

Police sized from him 6 sealed plastic sachets containing suspected shabu; P1000 marked money, 10 empty plastic sachets with shabu residue, two glass tube tooters with shabu residue; numerous drug paraphernalia; and four cellphones.

Police also arrested the suspect’s live-in partner as alleged cohort. (tsg)