Republic of the Office of the President PHILIPPINE DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY NIA Northside Road, National Government Center Pinyahan, Quezon City PRESS RELEASE # 485/16 DATE : October 15, 2016 AUTHORITY : ISIDRO S LAPEÑA, PhD, CSEE Director General For more information, comments and suggestions please call: DERRICK ARNOLD C. CARREON, CESE, Director, Public Information Office Tel. No. 929-3244, 927-9702 Loc.131; Cell phone: 09159111585

DRUG GROUP MEMBER, COHORT BUSTED IN Drug surrenderer arrested in

A suspected member of a local drug group and his cohort were arrested by combined operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and local police after they sold methamphetamine hydrochloride, locally known as shabu, to a poseur-buyer in Ilocos Sur.

PDEA Director General Isidro S. Lapeña identified the suspects as Wilson Salingbay, alias Willy, 44 years old; and Leo Tel-e, 32, both residents of Banayoyo, Ilocos Sur.

Salingbay is a member of Ilocandia Drug Group operating in City, Ilocos Sur and nearby municipalities.

In the afternoon of October 12, 2016, joint elements of PDEA Regional Office 1 (PDEA RO1) under Director Jeoffrey Tacio and Ilocos Sur Police conducted a buy- bust operation that led to the arrest of Salingbay and Tel-e in their own neighborhood in Banayoyo.

Confiscated during the operation were one heat-sealed transparent plastic sachet of suspected shabu and the motorcycle that the suspects used in delivering the illegal drug.

Salingbay and Tel-e will be facing charges for violation of Section 5 (Sale of Dangerous Drugs), and Section 11 (Possession of Dangerous Drugs) Article II of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

Earlier the same day, operatives of PDEA RO1 arrested Gerry del Rosario, 37, a drug surrenderer, after he sold one plastic sachet containing suspected shabu in Zone 5, Pinmaludpod, Urdaneta City, Pangasinan. When frisked, Del Rosario yielded assorted drug paraphernalia and the mobile phone he used during the transaction.

Cases for violation of Sections 5, 11 (Possession of Dangerous Drugs) and 12 (Possession of Drug Paraphernalia) of RA 9165, are being prepared for filing in court against Del Rosario.

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