By DIGOS CITY, Davao del Sur – Following weeks of surveillance, a joint team of police operatives launched a buy-bust operation in Barangay Kapatagan here, resulting in the arrest of four suspects at around 10:49 p.m. on Wednesday.
Lt. Col. Peter Glenn Ipong, Digos City acting police chief, identified the suspects through their aliases as Li, 40; Dondon, 41; Oning, 37; and Chikoy, 43. The suspects, all men, are farmers and residents of Barangay Kapatagan.
Ipong said the suspects are listed as “street-level drug personalities” from whom authorities seized multiple sachets of suspected meth weighing some 42.14 grams with an estimated street value of ₱286,552.
