BY GLAZYL MASCULINO
BACOLOD CITY – Police seized Monday night about two kilograms of suspected shabu worth P13.6 million from a couple and their housemaid in a buy-bust operation at Barangay Singcang-Airport here.
Police arrested Regine Arroz, 28, her live-in-partner Jun Mark Ibe, 28, both residents of the said village, and their housemaid Shiela Mhary Balarao, 34, of Pulupandan, Negros Occidental. Personnel of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Drug Enforcement Group-Special Operations Unit 4 and 7, together with the Regional Drug Enforcement Unit (RDEU)-6 conducted the operation after they received a report regarding the alleged shipment of the contraband from Luzon to Bacolod.
The contraband were placed inside the boxes of milk and cereals and were shipped through a courier firm, police said.
Authorities recovered from them the P1,000 marked money, P14,000 boodle money, and P29,000.
Ibe, in a media interview, said he was supposed to get some feeds that they would sell when he was caught during the operation.
He said he has no idea about the contraband and he denied his involvement in the illegal drug trade.
Meanwhile, Balarao said that she was just hired as a house helper for about a month now.
The three suspects are detained at Police Station 8. (Glazyl Masculino)
