ASINGAN, Pangasinan – A 42-year-old policeman and a 31-year-old drug pusher were apprehended in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Domanpot, this town, on Sunday afternoon, February 18.
ASINGAN, Pangasinan police station
Police said they were monitoring the drug pusher, alias Puto, when the police officer with the rank of police corporal assigned to the Santa Maria, Pangasinan police station, arrived.
The police officer, who had been tied to illegal drug activities, purchased suspected shabu from Puto, prompting lawmen to accost him but he fled on board a Toyota Tamaraw FX bearing license plates UNZ-665.
Puto was nabbed and seized from him was shabu worth P3,400 and a heat-sealed transparent plastic sachet.
Lawmen chased and caught up with the police officer who yielded the car, a cellphone, and a handgun.
Inventory and markings of pieces of evidence were done on-site in the presence of mandatory witnesses.