A street-level pusher was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Purok Tambis, Barangay Umapad, here on Monday night, June 5, 2023 CDNDigital
Jocel Zanoria, alias “Alexa,” is arrested in Purok Tambis, Barangay Umapad, Mandaue City. | contributed photo
MANDAUE CITY, Cebu—A street-level pusher was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Purok Tambis, Barangay Umapad, here on Monday night, June 5, 2023. Personnel of the Opao Police Station in Mandaue City confiscated at least P136,000 worth of suspected shabu from the suspect, identified by police as Jocel Zanoria, alias “Alexa”, who is 24 years old.
Interviewed by members of the media in his holding cell, Zanoria said he decided to sell drugs because he did not have any means of earning.Zanoria, a member of the LGBTQ+ community, said he used to work as aZanoria was also imprisoned in 2020 forIn fact, police are verifying rumors that he stole money from a chapel in barangay Cambaro in Mandaue City and used it to pay for the drugs he sold.
But Zanoria denied the allegations. He said that selling illegal drugs was on a consignment bases. But he refused to name his partner.Zanoria will be facing charges for violating sections 5 and 11 of
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