Lovers to spend V-Day in jail

A 22-year-old man and his girlfriend will have to spend Valentine’s Day in jail after they were arrested in a buy-bust operation yesterday in Barangay Balud, Dalaguete town.

Marlon Quevedo was arrested after he allegedly sold drugs to a police decoy.

His girlfriend, Faith Hermosora, 30, who was with him, was also arrested.

Senior Insp. Dexter Basergo, chief of Dalaguete police, said Quevedo is a street pusher and most of his customers are high school and college students.

Recovered from Quevedo were eight small packs believed to contain shabu and another nine packs were seized from Hermosora.

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