BUTUAN CITY, Feb. 9 -- The amount involved was measly compared to major drug buy-busts but the suspect was an unexpected one.

Anti-narcotics agents arrested a licensed teacher who also works as a tour guide in the popular surfing town of General Luna in Siargao Island during a buy-bust Friday morning.

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Caraga Region (PDEA-13) and the Surigao del Norte Provincial Police Office report said suspect "Nino" was arrested in his residence in Barangay 1.

"Our agents conducted surveillance and build-up activities for weeks on the suspect," PDEA-13 information chief Dindo Abellanosa said in a text message to the Philippine News Agency on Friday.

The 40-year-old suspect yielded 70 grams of shabu worth...