Republic of the Philippines Office of the President PHILIPPINE DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY NIA Northside Road, National Government Center Pinyahan, Quezon City PRESS RELEASE # 459/15 DATE : October 8, 2015 AUTHORITY : UNDERSECRETARY ARTURO G. CACDAC, JR., CESE Director General For more information, please text or call: Mr. Glenn J. Malapad, OIC, Public Information Office Tel. No. 929-3244, 927-9702 Loc.131; Cell phone: 09274560042 ______

BARANGAY KAGAWAD ARRESTED IN CITY BUY-BUST

A 42-year-old barangay kagawad was arrested by joint elements of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and local police after he sold methamphetamine hydrochloride, or shabu, to a poseur-buyer in Malaybalay City on October 4, 2015.

PDEA Director General Undersecretary Arturo G. Cacdac, Jr. identified the suspect as Lumna Bongcarao y Maruhom, 42 years old, a barangay kagawad of Brgy. 4, Poblacion, Malaybalay City, and Number 3 of Top 15 Regional Target PDEA- PNP 2015. Also arrested with Bongcarao was Nicolas Elloren y Lapiñas, alias Iko, 35, jobless, of 5, Bgry. 9, Malaybalay City.

At around 5:00 in the afternoon, joint operatives of PDEA Regional Office 10 (PDEA RO10) under Director Wilkins M. Villanueva and Malaybalay City Police Station- City Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group (CAIDSOTG) conducted a buy- bust operation at Room 115 of Pilots, Purok 3, Brgy. Laguitas, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon that led to the arrest of Bongcarao and Elloren.

Confiscated from Bongacarao and Elloren were 10 pieces of heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets containing white crystalline substance of suspected shabu weighing 10 grams with an estimated value of P50,000.00, assorted drug paraphernalia and the buy-bust money.

Cases for violation of Section 5 (Sale of Dangerous Drugs), Section 11 (Possession of Dangerous Drugs), and Section 12 (Possession of Equipment and Other Paraphernalia for Dangerous Drugs), Article II of RA 9165 or The Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, will be filed against Bongacarao and Elloren. They are temporarily detained at the Provincial Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group (PAIDSOTG) Bukidnon. ###