Drug duo busted; minor rescued

BAGUIO CITY — Two suspected drug pushers were arrested in La Trinidad, Benguet, based on a concerned citizen’s tip to police that one of them had been cohabiting with a minor. Senior Superintendent David Lacdan, officer-in charge (OIC) of the Benguet Police Provincial Police Office (PPO), said suspects Darwin Lang-odan Santiago, 49, of Barangay Pico and Jeffrey Laurista Gramatica, 23, of Barangay Balili, were nabbed in a buy-bust operation in which they yielded “shabu” and drug paraphernalia. The girl whom Gramatica allegedly took as his wife was rescued at his rented apartment. (Zaldy C. Comanda)