Binibining Cebu contestant nabbed in a drug bust in Cebu City

CEBU CITY, Philippines – A former Binibining Cebu candidate and a young man were arrested in separate drug busts at dawn today for allegedly selling high-grade marijuana.

The arrest of Teri Marina Silva Colmenares aka “Tery,” 22, culminated the series of operations where she was pinpointed as the source of the high-grade marijuana.

Colmenares was a candidate of the 2018 Binibining Cebu representing Carmen town.

Senior Inspector Dexter Basirgo, chief of the Guadalupe Police Precinct that conducted the operations, said it began on December 8 when they received a complaint from a rape victim who claimed she was molested twice by a disk jockey of a resto-bar by drugging her.

The rape suspect, following his arrest, confessed to authorities where he get those drugs.

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The drug enforcement unit of the Guadalupe police, at dawn Saturday, then conducted a buy-bust operation and nabbed the drug source, Nicole Allan Casiño, 24, in Salinas Drive in Barangay Lahug, Cebu City.

Casiño lived Barangay Kamputhaw, Cebu City but he is a native of Cagayan De Oro City in Mindanao.

Casiño, in turn, then led the police to Colmenares who was caught with high-grade marijuana disguised as fruit pops.

Colmenares was handcuffed following the buy-bust operation in Escario Street, Barangay Kamputhaw.

Basirgo said that Colmenares used a fake ID and it was only after her arrest that they discovered her real identity.