Dance Instructor caught with PHP1.025 million worth of suspected Shabu

BACOLOD CITY – A resident here yielded PHP1.025 million worth of suspected shabu in a buy-bust conducted by operatives of Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) Station 5 in Barangay Taculing on Tuesday night.

Police identified the suspect as Arjon Ramos, 27, a dance instructor, who was arrested at his residence in Purok Gonzaga.

DRUG HAUL. Operatives of Bacolod City Police Office Station 5 seized about 151 grams of suspected shabu valued at PHP1.025 million during a buy-bust in Purok Gonzaga, Barangay Taculing on Tuesday night (Sept. 7, 2021). They arrested suspect Arjon Ramos, a dance instructor, during the operation. (Photo courtesy of BCPO Police Station 5)

Capt. John Christopher Masangkay, chief of Police Station 5, said in a radio interview that Ramos is allegedly working under a drug personality tagged as a high-value individual, who evaded arrest during their operation last month.

Bacolod City (File photo) 

The suspect serves as a warehouseman in Bacolod City and sometimes also sells the prohibited substance, he added.

During the operation around 6:40 p.m., Ramos, considered a newly identified drug personality, sold a sachet of shabu to an undercover policeman for PHP500.

Operatives then found in his possession three knot-tied plastic sachets of shabu weighing almost 151 grams pegged at PHP6,800 per gram, along with some drug paraphernalia.

On Aug. 5, Station 5 policemen also conducted a buy-bust in the same area where they also seized PHP770,000 worth of shabu from two suspects.

They arrested one of the two suspects, identified as Jaime Garde, 39. The other suspect, Jobel Blam, managed to evade arrest.

Mizanskey also said that both suspects distribute the prohibited substance in large quantities to their contacts. (PNA)

NOTE: SHABU. Methamphetamine HCL, a type of amphetamine is also known as “poor man's cocaine”. Other names are Shabu, Ubas, Siopao, Sha and Ice. Shabu is a white, odorless crystal or crystalline powder with a bitter numbing taste.