Marijuana supplier of students nabbed

BAGUIO CITY – An alleged distributor of marijuana to high school students was arrested here recently by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Cordillera in a buy-bust operation.

Al Denver W. Sayan, 25, private surveyor, resident of Green Valley here, was apprehended around 2 a.m. July 10 outside the gate of his house.

Sayan sold dried marijuana stalks, some wrapped in newspaper and bound with masking tape, weighing 54.76 grams; and some draped in a plastic bag that weighed 38.38 grams, to an anti-narcotic operative who posed as buyer.

Sayan tried to sell to the drug law enforcement officer 142.11 grams of marijuana, valued at P12,866.

Cases for illegal drugs were filed at the Regional Trial Court against him.

A police report said Sayan supplies marijuana to high school students and packages his wares into low-budget packets.

Earlier, around 40,000 full-grown marijuana plants and 2,000 marijuana seedlings valued at P880,000 were recently uprooted and burned at three plantations here at Barangay Tacadang, Kibungan, Benguet.