POLICE seized illegal drugs worth more than P1.4 million in two separate anti-drug operations last Thursday.
Three persons were arrested by operatives of the Provincial Intelligence Branch (PIB) in a buy-bust operation in barangay Bawo, Sogod town, northern Cebu.
Rustom Montejo Braga was the target of the buy-bust operation. He allegedly sold a pack of suspected shabu worth P500 to a poseur-buyer.
Police also arrested Braga’s companions Julius Cesar Tampus and Nelson Macatu.
Police said they seized from the three men 71 grams of suspected shabu worth P837,000 .
A separate buy-bust operation in Talisay City, southern Cebu led to the arrest of Hilario Palmera.
Confiscated from him was shabu worth at least P600,000.
Palmera allegedly yielded 12 big packs and 12 sachets of suspected shabu, said SPO1 Reynante Solante.