ILOILO CITY, April 12 -- Anti-drug operatives arrested a 49-year-old suspect considered a high-value individual after he was caught for the third time selling shabu during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Caingin in this city's La Paz district on Friday.

Recovered from the suspect's possession was 430 grams of shabu with a standard drug price of PHP2.9 million but it could be sold for up to PHP8.6 million on the street, said Col. Joeresty Coronica, director of the Iloilo City Police Office, who joined the CDEU during the operation.

City Drug Enforcement Unit (CDEU) Chief Lt. Col. Antonio Benitez Jr. said alias "Damian" was first caught in 2013 and released in 2018, but in the same year, he was again apprehended for the same offense and ...