MANILA, Philippines - Anti-narcotics agents arrested a former policeman and another suspect for attempting to sell a brick of cocaine in Palo, Leyte last week.
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) identified the arrested suspects as former Police Officer 2 Elmer Ampong and Alfredo Lacbayo Jr., residents of Barangay A, Borongan City, Eastern Samar.
The PDEA said that the suspects were arrested during a buy-bust operation in Palo town last January 28.
Seized from the suspects were one brick of cocaine, a Colt Mark IV series 80 caliber .45 pistol, a knife and buy-bust money worth P50,000.
PDEA director general Jose Gutierrez said that the cocaine brick seized from the suspects could have been part of a drug shipment dumped from a Chinese vessel in December 2009.
Drug charges are being prepared against the suspects. (report from abs-cbnNEWS.com)
