Sexagenarian arrested for drug offenses

A 60-year-old woman was arrested with two others in separate anti-narcotics operations in Caloocan City on Saturday.

Suspect Erlinda Alvarez, of 23 Baltazar Bukid Street in Barangay 70, was apprehended by the operatives of the Station Drug Enforcement Unit (SDEU) in a buy-bust operation along Baltazar West street also in Barangay 70 at around 10:30 p.m.

Police prober PO3 Fernando Moran said SDEU agents seized from the jobless woman three plastic sachets of shabu.

The suspect is now locked up at the police detention cell while charges are set to be filed against her today at the Caloocan City prosecutor’s office.

The SDEU operatives also arrested two alleged drug users while in a shabu session at around 5:40 p.m.

Isabelito Sawal, 34, and Elvira Martin, 48, both jobless, of Barangay Sto. Niño, Malabon City, were apprehended while in the act of sniffing shabu at a suspected drug den on Salmon corner Sabalo streets in Dagat-Dagatan, Caloocan City. — Pete Laude