Internet cafe worker charged for selling shabu online

KORONADAL CITY, Philippines— Police have filed charges against an internet café worker arrested for selling narcotics online.

Chief Inspector Aldrin Gonzalez, information officer of the Regional Police Office-12, said Sunday that Dan Dave Sumalpong, 33, was arrested last Tuesday by personnel of the Koronadal City police and the city’s anti-drug abuse council.

“A criminal case was filed against him after his arrest. He has been detained since Tuesday and is now awaiting prosecution,” Gonzalez said in an email Sunday.

Sumalpong was among top 20 high-value targets of the council in Koronadal City. 

Gonzalez said the city police had difficulty pinning Sumalpong down owing to his very clandestine nature of vending of shabu.

He used the internet in communicating with his contacts and payments for his merchandise were facilitated through commercial money remittance outfits.

The police recovered from him shabu and marked money after he agreed to an online deal with anti-narcotics agents.