Vice mayor’s kin nabbed for drugs

CURRIMAO, Ilocos Norte -- A sister-in-law of the municipal vice mayor and three others were arrested here in a drug sting July 17.

Josephine Torralba, sister-in-law of Badoc Vice Mayor Thomas Torralba, was arrested along with alleged drug traffickers Raquel Gamponia, Lisa Renien and Franklin Gorospe in Barangay San Simeon, according to provincial police director Senior Supt. Albert Ocon.

The suspects reportedly yielded a plastic sachet said to contain shabu with an estimated value of P5,000.

Ocon said the vice mayor’s sister-in-law was the primary target of the operation, but all suspects were in the police’s watchlist of suspected drug traffickers.