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BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
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Friday, June 9, 2017
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ILOILO City – Two separate antidrug operations netted three men. They belonged to a new drug group, according to the police.
First to be arrested were Edison Locsin, 39, and Jovernal Yabot, 39. Around 5 p.m. on Wednesday policemen busted them in Barangay Hipodromo, City Proper.
Locsin yielded 65 sachets of shabu valued at P20,000 and two .38 revolvers, said Senior Superintendent Christopher Tambungan, regional director for operations of the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6).
Tambungan led the operation as chairperson of the PRO-6’s oversight committee on illegal drugs. Illegal drug paraphernalia were recovered from Yabot, he said.
Locsin was a resident of Barangay Boulevard, Molo district while Yabot was from Barangay Calumpang, also in the same district.
Yabot denied peddling shabu. He claimed what were recovered from him and Locsin were “planted.”
An hour after, a companion of the two suspects was caught in Barangay Danao, City Proper.
The 38-year-old Charlone Bonifacio, a resident of Barangay Dapitan, Pototan, Iloilo, was a former Philippine Army soldier. The police recovered from him P10,000 worth of shabu.
According to Senior Inspector Kennith Bermejo of RDEU, the suspects got their shabu stocks from the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila
“From Muntinlupa, the shabu was sent to Bacolod City. Didto ginakuha sang mga suspects,” said Bermejo.
The three men were detained at Police Station 1. They face a charge for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002./PN
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