Pototan local faces drug raps

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BY RUBY SILUBRICO
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Sunday. September 17, 2017
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ILOILO City – Charges for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 may be filed against a resident of Barangay Nanga, Pototan, Iloilo.

The 45-year-old Joemarie Publico was arrested in a buy-bust operation in the village yesterday.

Publico is a “newly identified drug personality,” according to the Pototan police station.

Eight sachets of shabu were seized from him on top of the one he sold to an undercover officer for P500, police said.

He was taken to the Pototan police station where he was detained after his arrest at around 10:20 a.m.

Publico, who owns a store in front of the Iloilo District Jail, denied owning the items seized from him. “I have no idea where the police got the shabu,” he said in Hiligaynon.

But Police Officer 2 Raffy Gonzales, case investigator, said Publico’s name is in their watch list of drug personalities.

Officers conducted a “test buy” on the suspect on Sept. 11 before operatives from the Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit of the Iloilo Police Provincial Office and the Pototan police station staged the buy-bust yesterday. (With Ian Paul Cordero/PN)
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