BACOLOD CITY – About 500 grams of suspected shabu worth P15 million from a minor were seized in a buy-bust operation in Purok Fatima, Barangay 31 here Saturday.
Personnel of the City Drug Enforcement Unit conducted the operation against Cader Magondacan, who was able to escape during the drug bust.
His 17-year-old son was arrested and allegedly yielded 29 sachets of suspected shabu valued at P15 million and the P5,000 marked money.
Lt. Col. Leonardo Borromeo, CDEU head, said the minor-suspect allegedly sold a shabu to a police agent for P5,000.
Borromeo said they have been monitoring Magondacan for a few weeks now, following previous buy-bust operations here linking him as source of the illegal drugs of the arrested drug suspects.
Borromeo said Magondacan is one of the big suppliers of drugs in this city, but he is not usually staying here.
Magondacan would transfer from one place to another, he added.
Borromeo said that supply of the contraband is not located in the barangay, but the transaction is being held there.
He said Magondacan probably sourced out the items in Mindanao as he is a native of the island.
Borromeo said the target subject was able to escape on board his motorcycle when the police were approaching the house of his mother.
Magondacan would usually distribute the items in Bacolod and neighboring cities of Talisay and Silay, he said. (Glazyl Masculino)
