Village exec nabbed over drugs in Isabela

MANILA, Philippines - Anti-narcotics agents arrested a barangay kagawad during a buy bust operation in Isabela province, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency said on Thursday.

PDEA director general Arturo Cacdac Jr. said the suspect, Melchor Saquing, 56, a barangay kagawad, and a resident of Zone 2, Brgy. San Mariano, Isabela was nabbed last March 11.

He said that during the sting operation, around 8 p.m., operatives of PDEA Regional Office 2 arrested Saquing after he sold a plastic sachet containing white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu, to a PDEA agent.

The drug deal happened along National Highway, Bgry. San Manuel, Naguilian, Isabela.

Seized from Saquing’s possession were more or less one gram of suspected shabu contained in a plastic sachet, a tricycle, a mobile phone, and the P1000 bill used as buy-bust money, Cacdac said.

Saquing will be charged with violation of Section 5 (Sale of Dangerous Drugs), Article II of Republic Act 9165, or also known as the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.