Shabu ‘peddlers’

• Law enforcers nab seven for illegal drugs

LAW ENFORCERS arrested seven individuals for illegal drugs on the last three days of last week.

The reports said three of those arrested - Ronnie Niño L. Uy, Jereco Mangigo Cagadas and Elvis Bentoso Guanlao - were trying to sneak the prohibited substance into the city.

The other suspects were Jeffrey Albaran and his visitors identified as Jerico Autencio, Manuel Calsa and Jessie Mangubat.

They were collared on Wednesday while allegedly holding a shabu session in what the police called a shabu den in Purok Holy Cross, Barangay San

Antonio, Agdao.

In the case of Uy, a resident of Purok 3-B RTU Village Apokon, Tagum City, Davao Del Norte, Captain John Louie Dema-ala, Task Force Davao spokesperson, he was entering the city on Maundy Thursday when two sachets of shabu was seized from him at the TFD checkpoint in Lasang. The value of the illegal substance was at P23,520.

On the same day, law enforcers collarged Guanlao of Consuelo, Bunawan, Agusan del Sur when he yielded a sachet suspected of containing shabu also at the same checkpoint.

BING GONZALES A MAN stops his morning walk to look at posters of candidates along the national highway in Barangay Dumoy, Talomo District. The synchronized local and national elections are just three weeks away as these would take place on May 9.