Did the Laoag City cops keep the P10,000 cash of a drug pusher?

Minutes before the Laoag City policemen arrived on an owner-type jeep to arrest an alleged drug-pusher, the suspect was having halo-halo on a stall in front of the house that the lawmen illegally search. Victor Padayao, 44, who was eventually arrested in the next village, Barangay 7, had probably more than P10,000 in his possession, according to the stall-owner who lives across the street. He was counting his money--mostly P1,000 paper bills--and looking for loose change, but found none and promised to pay for what he has eaten later, according to the 50-year old informant. F0llowing Padayao's arrest, a local television news radio patrol interviewed some of the cops involved in the alleged buy-bust operation. One of them was presenting a P500 bill marked money taken from the pockets of Padayao.But Padayao told his sister, Nellie Montano, 48, that he never took hold of any marked money. Meaning that transaction between Padayao and the drug buyer was never consummated? Where is the more than P10,000 that Padayao was carrying at that time?