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BAGUIO CITY — A Benguet farmer is facing drug charges after he was caught keeping crystal meth (shabu) after policemen raided his home in Mankayan, Benguet Monday afternoon.

The suspect, whose name was withheld by police, is included in the list of “High Value Individual Drug Personality” (HVI). He was taken when policemen found ten sachets of shabu from his raided home in Sitio Gueday, Barangay Palasaan, Mankayan town.

According to Cordillera police director Brig. Gen. David K. Peredo, Jr., the seized drugs was worth P894,132.

Mr. Peredo said drug paraphernalia including lighter, tooter, transparent box, weighing scale were also caught from the suspect’s home. — Artemio A. Dumlao