Three men fall in drug raids

Police arrested three men and confiscated 14 heat-sealed plastic sachets of shabu and a large pack of dried marijuana cigarettes during a joint operation conducted by the Cebu Provincial Police Office and the Catmon police Friday night in barangays Corazon and Flores, Catmon town.

Armed with search warrant issued by judge Sylvia Paderanga of RTC Branch 25, Danao City policemen raided a house in Katambisan Village, barangay Corazon, and arrested George Matos alias "Titing", 26, and his live-in partner Kirby Ares, 31.

Seized from them were four plastic sachets with suspected shabu and drug paraphernalia.

After 30 minutes the operatives proceed to barangay Flores and arrested Mariano Estenzo IV alias "John-John", 34. Confiscated from him were 10 plastic packet containing suspected shabu, two hand-rolled marijuana cigarettes and another partly consumed marijuana cigarette and shabu paraphernalia.

The suspects are now detained at the Catmon police station waiting for the filing of appropriate charges against them. - Norvie S. Misa, Correspondent