Mother, son, two others nabbed in drug busts

The Cebu City Intelligence Branch conducted buy-bust operations separately on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning. (CDN PHOTO/ DOMINIC YASAY)

The Cebu City Intelligence Branch conducted buy-bust operations separately on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning. (CDN PHOTO/ DOMINIC YASAY)

A mother, her son and two others were arrested by police in three separate drug busts in Cebu City on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning.

Edna Flores and her son Mark were arrested in barangay Pahina San Nicolas at 8:20 a.m. Wednesday. Police said it was Mark Moralde who tipped off the police that they got the supplies from Edna.

Moralde was arrested at 7:40 a.m. on Wednesday at Salinas Drive in Barangay Lahug, Cebu City. Police also also arrested Mark Rustilo at Barangay Apas in 11 am Tuesday.

Recovered from their possession were several packs of drugs each amounting to P18,000 per sachet, two mobile phones and buy-bust money. The four suspected drug pushers are now detained at the Mabolo police precinct.

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