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BY ADRIAN STEWART CO
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Tuesday, august 1, 2017
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MANILA – The Department of Justice yesterday issued a “lookout bulletin” order against eight suspected drug personalities, including Rolando “Kerwin” Espinosa and Cebuano businessman Peter “Jaguar” Lim.
The subjects were charged with violation of Section 5 of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, before the National Prosecutors Service, said Justice secretary Vitaliano Aguirre.
Also named in the bulletin were Peter Co, Marcelo Adorco, Max Miro, Lovely Adam Impal, Ruel Malindagan, and Jun Pepito.
Under the order, Bureau of Immigration personnel must report to the authorities any attempt of the subjects to leave the country.
With the “gravity” of their alleged offenses, there is “likelihood” that they would leave the Philippines “to place themselves beyond the reach of the lawful processes of the concerned offices,” Aguirre said.
Espinosa is under the Witness Protection Program of the Justice department due to his knowledge on the narcotics trade. Adorco, Miro and Pepito are his alleged right-hand people.
Impal was arrested by antidrug agents in an entrapment in Iligan City earlier this year.
Miro and Manidlangan are under police custody after voluntarily surrendering last year, while Co is in the New Bilibid Prison.
Lim, who met with President Rodrigo Duterte a year ago to deny he was a drug dealer, is the same man the President was referring to in a “drug matrix” released July 7 last year, the National Bureau of Investigation said./PN
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