A 75-year-old woman was arrested in Carcar city southern Cebu for the second time for allegedly selling illegal drugs.
Police said they seized shabu worth P300,000 from the house of Beatriz Fernandez Secretaria in barangay Bolinawan.
Police also arrested her daughter Ethel Intong and Ethel’s husband Marcelo, Regino Cabaluna Jr. and Greg Delantar.
The raid was based on a warrant issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Soliver Peras.
Secretaria was arrested last April for the same offense but was able to post bail.
Secretaria said she was forced to sell illegal drugs so she could buy medicine for her hypertension.
She said her supply came from a certain King from Badian town and that she was able to earn P10,000 a day from selling it.
In Lapu-Lapu City, packs of suspected shabu worth P2.5 million were seized from a man tagged by police as a level two pusher.
Briagn Mori Singson, 34, and his companion Reyjan Berdon Esmalin, 33, were arrested by operatives of the City Intelligence Branch in a buy-bust operation last Thursday night.
Police said Singson sold a medium-sized pack of shabu to a decoy outside his house in barangay Looc.
PO2 Jovil Tejana said nine packs of shabu and a KG9 submachine gun were seized from Singson.
Four medium-sized packs and a .38 revolver were also seized from Esmalin.
Singson admitted selling illegal drugs for a year now “tungod sa kawad-on (because of poverty).”
Police said Singson was capable of selling at least 200 grams of shabu a week.