Almost P.5M drugs seized in Baguio City sting

BAGUIO CITY (October 22, 2024) -- Government anti-narcotics agents seized a total of P448,800.00-worth of illegal drugs in a sting operation past noon Tuesday along barangay San Vicente, here.

Suspects, Joy Flores, 37 and Crenton Bagay, 35, sold eleven sachets of shabu to an undercover operative, and when frisked, thirteen more sachets of shabu were seized from one of them, bringing the total drug haul to 66 grams.

The duo, according to PDEA-CAR spokesperson Rosel G. Sarmiento, were logged in the drug watchlist while Bagay had earlier been sued for drug trading but was freed after his case was dismissed.

Flores and Bagay were taken by the PDEA -CAR to face violations of Republic Act 9165 (Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002).