BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – Around P27.6 million worth of suspected shabu were seized in two separate antidrug operations yesterday morning in Negros Island.
Joint antidrug operatives confiscated suspected shabu valued at around P14 million following the arrest of a 31-year-old Emmanuel Siaboc in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental.
Only Siaboc – tagged a “high-value” suspect – was caught and now in police custody.
His companion William Allones manage to flee after they sold P200,000 worth of the prohibited substance to a poseur-buyer in a residence on 2nd Street, St. Vincent Subdivision, police said.
Pursuit operation was launched.
Operatives of the San Carlos City police station, Regional Intelligence Division 6 and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency 6 swooped down on the two at around 2:45 p.m.
Major Mark Angelo Junco, San Carlos police chief, said Siaboc and Allones were cohorts of the drug suspects arrested on Sunday in Cebu City and in Sibulan, Negros Oriental.
Meanwhile, authorities in Sibulan, Negros Oriental were able to neutralize 24-year-old drug suspect Joemarie Yongco after the latter allegedly fought back.
According to Police Colonel Arnel Banzon of the Negros Oriental Police Provincial Office, Yongco was initially arrested for selling sachets of suspected shabu to an undercover officer.
As Yongco was being arrested, he allegedly tried to shoot the police.
This prompted authorities to shoot back, killing him in the process.
Police later found two kilograms of suspected shabu in his backpack valued at around P13.7 million.
Yongco was listed as a “high-value” drug suspect.
Aside from the drugs, a .45-caliber pistol was also recovered.
In Cebu City, Romeo brothers Rolando, 32, Edward, 24, and Calvin Valdez, 42, were arrested in a sting operation that yielded seven kilos of suspected shabu worth P47.6 million.
According to the police, the illegal drugs supply was transported from Manila to Cebu via San Carlos City port./PN
