5 drug suspects nabbed in Navotas

Navotas anti-narcotics operatives arrested five suspected drug offenders in an operation last Tuesday afternoon in a barangay of the coastal town.

Senior Inspector Bernabe Irenco, Navotas police Station Anti-Illegal Drugs (SAID) chief, identified the suspects as Mae Santos, 25, Leslie Sigua, 31, Virginia Alfora, 52, Oneth Castro, 38, and Juanito Clemente, 31, all of Barangay Tangos, Navotas.

Irenco said that at 2:15 p.m., the SAID team, led by SPO1 Alexander Acusin, was conducting a buy-bust operation on Roldan street in Barangay Tangos, when an informant told them of an ongoing shabu session at an unnumbered house in the area.

The operatives swooped down on the said house, owned by Alfora, and caught suspects Santos, Sigua and Castro in the act of sniffing shabu. Clemente had served as the lookout.

The officers arrested the four suspects and the house owner.

Police seized from them a lighter, tooter, burner, aluminum foil and other shabu sniffing paraphernalia.

The SAID teams’s original target eluded arrest.

At least six of Navotas’ 14 barangays remain at the SAID watchlist. These include Barangays Tangos, Daang-Hari, North Bay Boulevard North, North Bay Boulevard South, Sipac Almacin, and San Roque.

The SAID unit, in coordination with the local officials, is continuously conducting "drug clearing operations" on the said barangays.