LUCENA CITY—Eleven persons suspected of involvement in the drug trade were arrested by the Quezon Province police on Wednesday.
A suspected member of the Alcala drug group was arrested by elements of the Tayabas City police on the strength of a warrant issued by Hon. Agripino Morga, executive judge of Regional Trial Court Branch 29-32 in San Pablo City.
Provincial Director Sr. Supt. Antonio Yarra identified the suspect as Rhine Christine Briones Alcala alias Arlene, 37, from Barangay Isabang, Tayabas City. According to the PNP she is high-value target of the police in Quezon province.
The arresting officers seized .85 grams of a crystalline substance believed to be shabu and two magazines of a .45-caliber gun from her house.
Meanwhile, 10 more suspected drug personalities were arrested in in Chillz Billiards on C.M. Recto Street in Lucena City also on Wednesday.
Yarra identified the suspects as Jervie Sebastian Olavides, 29; Aleli Marie Literatus Wagwag, 23; Nikki Paulo Verzo Espinosa, 29; Aldrin Russel Palmero Maldonado, 20; Thom David Magpantay Viñas, 20; Neonelon Villanueva Gonzales, 42; Mark Angelo Custudio Merjudio, 29; Neil Driz Reyes, 27; Mark ArgudoWetack, 30; and alias Rex, 15.
A joint team led by Police Chief Insp. Juson Sumibcay and Philippine Air Force men trapped Olavides in buy-bust operation after he attempted to sell one heat-sealed transparent plastic sachet containing a white crystalline substance believed to be shabu for ₱1,000. A similar sachet was also confiscated. Wagwag was allegedly Olavides’ accomplice.
The other suspects were caught in the act of sniffing shabu and the police seized two strips of aluminum foil, one unsealed sachet containing the residue of suspected shabu and two lighters. Also confiscated from Merjudio and Gonzales were one sachet each of a suspicious substance.
The suspected shabu weighing more or less 1.71 grams and worth some ₱3,163.50 were brought to Lucena City Police Station and will be stransferred to Quezon Provincial Crime Laboratory Office in Camp Guillermo Nakar in this city.
The suspects are detained at the Lucena City Police Station custodial facility.