Police arrested a suspected drug pusher and seized from him suspected shabu, a firearm and ammunition, in a buy-bust operation at around 1:30 a.m. yesterday in Barangay Taclobo, Dumaguete City,

Senior Insp. Ryan Jay Orapa, head of the Provincial Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group, said Romeo Amoma Jr., 31, of Sitio Canday-ong in Barangay Calindagan, Dumaguete, was arrested when he allegedly sold suspected shabu to a police poseur-buyer.

Seized from Amoma were three big transparent plastic sachets containing suspected shabu granules, weighing about 15 grams and worth P165,000 based on the Dangerous Drugs Board pricing, Orapa said.

The police also recovered from him a .45 caliber pistol with three rounds of live ammunition, a digital weighing scale, a P500 marked bill placed on top of bogus money used during the transaction, and a Yamaha motorcycle.

Amoma is now detained at the lock-up cell of the Dumaguete police, who are relentlessly conducting anti-illegal drugs operations in anticipation of an increase in demand and supply during the holiday season.*JFP

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