CALASIAO, Oct. 8 -- Operatives seized over PHP1 million worth of shabu from a regional priority high-value individual (HVI) in a buy-bust operation along the bypass road of Barangay Poblacion, Lingayen town, Pangasinan on Tuesday night.

The Police Regional Office Ilocos (PRO1) identified the suspect as a 38-year-old construction worker from Mangaldan town.

"Confiscated from him were two heat-sealed and five knot-tied transparent plastic sachets containing shabu weighing more or less 160 grams," said Pangasinan PPO information officer Capt. Aileen Catugas in a phone interview on Wednesday.

The suspect faces charges for violation of Sections 5 and 11 of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 (Republic Act 9165).

PRO1 director Bri...