The Labangon Police Station of the Cebu City Police Office presents the packs of shabu estimated to be worth P7.4 million seized from Arnel Salapa, whom police tagged as a high value target, in a drug bust past 9 p.m. on Oct. 19, 2019. |Photo courtesy of Police Major Hendrix Bancoleta, chief Labangon Police Station
CEBU CITY, Philippines — A man tagged as a high-value target (HVT) was caught with P7.4 million worth of suspected shabu in a buy-bust operation conducted by the Labangon Police Station of the Cebu City Police Office at Sitio Santo Niño, Barangay Mambaling, Cebu City, at around 9 p.m. today, Saturday, October 19, 2019.
Police Major Henrix Bacoleta, identified the suspect as Arnel Salapa Estor, 34, from Sitio Puntod, Barangay Alaska Mambaling, Cebu City.
According to Bancoleta, Estor was considered a big time drug dealer who had been under surveillance for about one weeks before the police caught him.
The suspect is now detained in at the Labangon police’s detention facility, said Bacoleta. /elb