P1.3M shabu seized in Bohol

Photo courtesy of Tagbilaran City Police

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol— A suspected drug pusher was arrested in a buy-bust operation here on Monday night where operatives recovered P1.38 million worth of shabu.

Geoffrey Buaya Silao, 33 who was from Cebu, would be charged for violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

Senior Insp. Romar Labasbas of the Bohol Provincial Police Office’s Provincial Intelligence Branch (PIB), said Silao was arrested by officers from the Drug Enforcement Unit along CPG Avenue in Barangay Cogon in Tagbilaran City past 8 p.m. on Monday, after he sold shabu to an undercover policeman.

Authorities seized one extra large size sachet and five large sachets of suspected shabu weighing 117 grams worth P1.38 million.

Labasbas said Silao had been under surveillance for three weeks.

Silao, a native of Talisay City in Cebu, was staying with a relative in Cogon when he got interested to continue his illegal activities here.

He said he just started selling shabu only last August this year.
Silao said that he was just asked by a friend to keep the contraband until someone would get it.

“I was just the custodian,” he said.

The shabu was believed to have come from Cebu City which was transported to Tagbilaran by boat. “Considering we seized more than 100 grams from him, we considered him as a high value target,” Labasbas said.