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BY ADRIAN STEWART CO
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Thursday, August 3, 2017
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MANILA – Twenty-two “drug personalities,” including Peter Lim and Kerwin Espinosa, were facing charges before the Department of Justice.
They were accused of violating Section 26 (b) in relation to Section 5 of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) filed the charges yesterday.
“The respondents are accused of conspiracy in the sale, trade, delivery, distribution, and transportation of dangerous drugs and controlled precursors and essential chemicals,” the CIDG wrote Justice secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II.
Others charged included Peter Co, Marcelo Adorco, Max Miro, Lovely Impal, Jeremy “Amang,” Ruel Malindangan, and Jun Pepito, and several others who either came with aliases or were unidentified.
According to the CIDG, the respondents operate in various areas in the country.
Espinosa was already placed under the Witness Protection Program of the Justice department for his knowledge about the narcotics trade, while Adorco, Miro and Pepito were his alleged right-hand men.
Impal was arrested by antidrug agents in an entrapment in Iligan City earlier this year. Miro and Manidlangan were in police custody after surrendering last year, while Co was in New Bilibid Prison./PN
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