CAMP GENERAL ALEJO S SANTOS, City of Malolos – A notorious drug dealer was arrested on Tuesday and seized from him some P890,000 worth of shabu and firearms in Malolos, Bulacan.
Bulacan police director Col. Manuel Lukban Jr. said Alejandro Paloma alias Negro, of Bgy. Sto. Niño, Plaridel, Bulacan, was nabbed in a buy-bust operation by the operatives of the Station Drug Enforcement Unit (SDEU) of the Malolos City police.
Seized from him were five plastic sachets of shabu weighing at least 131 grams valued at P890,800, one plastic sachet of dried marijuana leaves worth P328, two ; two .45 pistols, a .38 caliber gun, several bullets, a cell phone, assorted drug paraphernalia, the marked money, and a motorcycle.
The suspect is now jailed at the Malolos City police and will face charges for violation of R.A. 9165 and a violation of R.A. 10591.
PRO3 director Brig. Gen. Matthew Baccay vowed the Central Luzon police will remain steadfast in its anti-drug campaign.