Job order city gov't employee arrested for drugs


A 37-year-old job order casual government employee was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay E. Lopez, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, May 8.

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A JOB order casual employee was nabbed in a drug sting in Silay City, Negros Occidental on May 8.

Police Lt. Col. Mark Anthony Darroca, Silay police chief, said the suspect has been monitored for three months following information on his alleged illegal activity.

He was assigned as a watchman of an elementary school and allegedly yielded 17 grams of suspected shabu worth P115,600. Also recovered from him were an improvised tooter and the P2,600 marked money.

The suspect as tagged as a high-value individual for being a government employee, police said.

Darroca said that he was a third casual government worker arrested for a drug offense in the city this year.