Chief Inspector Julius Ceasar Ablang, deputy regional director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), identified those arrested as brothers Ramon and Rogel Alvarez, Bernardo Ambayec, Allan Roberto and Florencio Llamado.
In its spot report, the PDEA-Calabarzon regional office identified the Alvarezes as the siblings of Mayor Romeo Alvarez of Gloria, Oriental Mindoro, and Vice Mayor Ruben Alvarez of Alaminos, Laguna.
Ablang said the arrest was the result of one-week surveillance following mounting complaints that the suspects were behind the sale of shabu to youths, mostly in various clubs in the province, particularly in Alaminos town.
Ablang said one of his men acted as a poseur buyer who transacted with one of the Alvarez brothers for P100,000 worth of shabu.
Seized from the suspects were some 50 grams of shabu, a caliber .45 pistol, shabu paraphernalia and two vehicles, a Honda Civic and a Mitsubishi Lancer.