TWO PRIORITY police targets were arrested in a buy-bust operation conducted in Purok Seaside, Bangkal, Barangay Talomo Proper, around 2:45 a.m., on Saturday, Oct. 28.
Captain Hazel Tuazon, the spokesperson of the Davao City Police Office, identified the suspects as John Paul Bariquit and Joh Rule Tinghil, listed as no. 1 and no. 2 station-level drug priority targets, respectively.
According to the report, the suspects were arrested after they sold a sachet of shabu to a poseur-buyer of the Sta. Ana Police Station. Confiscated from them were 30 grams of shabu valued at P204,000 and the buy-bust money.
The suspects face a charge of violating the Republic Act of 9165 (Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002).