ILOILO CITY, Feb. 14 -- A bus conductor who moonlights as a drug courier was arrested along with another high-value individual during a buy-bust operation Tuesday night in this city's Manduriao district.

The operation also resulted in the confiscation of 850 grams of suspected shabu worth PHP5.78 million, Capt. Glen Soliman, team leader of the Regional Police Drugs Enforcement Unit (RPDEU) of the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO6), said Wednesday.

Soliman said the suspect, identified as Gilbert, 34, and resident of Barangay Cotta, Lucena City, is a courier without the knowledge of other bus drivers.

"According to him, he picked up the drugs somewhere in Pasay. He received a specific amount of money depending on the volume of drugs," the p...