An American national was arrested by a joint team of anti-illegal drugs operatives during a buy-bust operation at a boarding house in Barangay Taclobo here over the weekend.
A report from the Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office identified the suspect as James Thomas Hobert, 50, single, from Florida.
Hobert was tagged by the arresting authorities from the Philippine National Police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Negros Oriental as a newly-identified “street level target”.
He was arrested around 8 p.m. Saturday in a rented room in Canlas Subd. in this capital City.
The law enforcers recovered from the foreign national an elongated transparent heat-sealed plastic sachet containing suspected shabu, which the suspect allegedly sold to an undercover operative and the P500 bill used as buy-bust money.
Also recovered from him were another elongated transparent heat-sealed plastic sachet containing suspected shabu; two pieces medium transparent heat-sealed plastic sachet containing suspected shabu, one big transparent heat-sealed plastic sachet containing suspected shabu, and P230 cash.
The total confiscated suspected shabu, weighing about eight grams, had an estimated Dangerous Drugs Board value of P54,400.
The suspect is now under custody of the Dumaguete Police Station while appropriate charges for violation of Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act are being readied against him. (Juancho Gallarde)
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