FORMER starlet Sabrina M, whose real name is Karen Pallasigue, was arrested in an anti-drug operation in Quezon City Sunday night, an official said Monday. Quezon City Police Chief Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar presented Pallasigue to reporters.
He also presented several mugshots of Pallasigue and a surveillance video showing her sniffing shabu.
Eleazar presented Pallasique even as Police Chief Ronald dela Rosa said they were ready to place under “Oplan Tokhang” personalities in show business who are involved in illegal drugs.
He made the statement in the face of reports that some 50 showbiz personalities were allegedly included in the list of President Rodrigo Duterte who are involved in illegal drugs.
“Surrender now because you have been identified as users,” Dela Rosa said.
Pallasigue, 39, was nabbed with two other people aged 28 and 29 in Pasong Tamo, Quezon City, around 11:45 p.m. on Sunday.
A police officer posed as a buyer of shabu worth P6,000 from Pallasigue, who was caught in possession of three sachets of suspected shabu, lighters and other materials for sniffing the drug, Eleazar said.
“We want to know who is supplying her,” he told reporters.
Pallasigue appeared in movies in the 1990s including Favorite Subject: Sex Education in 1999 and Karanasan: The Claudia Zobel Story, in 1995.