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BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
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ILOILO City – A couple and an ex-convict, all high-value drug suspects, were separately arrested yesterday.
John Obregon, 51, and wife Emmy, 51, were residents of Barangay Desamparados, Jaro district. The 47-year-old Jessie Dela Llana, on the other hand, was from Barangay Tanza Baybay, City Proper. They were detained at Police Station 1.
An undercover police officer recovered from the Obregon couple seven sachets of shabu around 10:45 a.m. yesterday at the suspects’ carinderia.
According to Chief Inspector Aldrin Lamera, chief of Police Station 1, the couple got their shabu supply from Barangay Bakhaw, Mandurriao district.
The Obregons, however, denied peddling shabu and accused the police of “planting” the sachets supposedly recovered.
“We have a carinderia business. We are not drug traders. The police searched our carinderia but found nothing. Still, they handcuffed us and brought us to the police station. There, we were surprised that they claimed to have recovered six sachets of shabu from us. Those were certainly planted,” said Emily.
According to Lamera, the Obregons turned themselves in to the police last year following the launching of the Philippine National Police’s Oplan Double Barrel, the campaign against illegal drugs.
On the other hand, Dela Llana was arrested in front of his house after an undercover police officer of the Police Regional Office 6’s Regional Drug Enforcement Unit bought from him a sachet of shabu.
Police recovered from Dela Llana 50 more sachets of shabu concealed in a cigarette pack, said Lamera.
Dela Llana denied owning the shabu but admitted to being a drug user.
He also confirmed having been convicted for illegal drugs eight years ago and detained at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) male dormitory in Barangay Ungka, Jaro district for over two years.
“I was standing in front of my house when the police arrived then handcuffed me. The recovered shabu were not mine,” said Dela Llana./PN
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