Moncada, Tarlac – Queen no more.
This said after the police here arrested a “notorious” drug peddler known among drug personalities as “Shabu queen”.
“She is so famous among drug circles. They call her Queen or Fairy Queen”, said PCInsp Palmyra Guardaya, this town’s police chief.
Guardaya was referring to Nory Bamba y Soriano, 36, who is from Barangay Estacion, Paniqui town who was arrested in a buy bust operation at Poblacion 1 here yesterday.
Bamba was arrested just after she disembarked from a north-bound bus and sold a sachet of shabu to a police poseur-buyer.
Aside from a retail-sized sachet, 2 bulging plastic sachets of shabu weighing around 5 grams was confiscated from Bamba, Guardaya revealed.
In her report to Tarlac Police Provincial Director Ritchie Medardo Posadas, Guardaya disclosed that Bamba’s apprehension came hours after the arrest of a group of local drug pushers who identified the Shabu Queen as their supplier of illegal drugs.
Earlier arrested were Isaiah Charles Villatema, AKA “IC”, 23, of Baraangay Pob. 4; Emil Guevarra, 22, of Barangay Camposanto; and Dennis Dalimot, 34, of Barangay Capayaoan.
Villatema’s group were entrapped at Barangay Lapsing, and confiscated from them were 6 sachets of shabu which they claimed were supplied by Bamba.
According to Posadas, Bamba’s illegal drug operation covers the towns of Moncada, Gerona, Paniqui, and Tarlac City.
“Guardaya’s contribution in our intensified campaign against illegal drugs is commendable. The arrest of one among the very active and very elusive local supplier of shabu (Bamba) is a no mean feat,” said Posadas.
Barely 2 months of her assignment here, the “hardworking” lady police chief have already caused the arrest of 16 pushers in this town. /Nelson Bolos