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BY RUBY SILUBRICO
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Tuesday, March 20, 2018
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ILOILO City – Police arrested five illegal drug pushing suspects in separate operations in Mandurriao and Jaro districts.
Operatives have identified them as suspected members of the Prevendido drug group.
Cedie Pondevida, 18, Ervie Molina, 20, and Marisol Villa, 48, were caught in Barangay Bakhaw, Mandurriao.
But Villa’s son Patrick Ian Gomez escaped when he sensed they were being set up, according to the Regional Drug Enforcement Unit (RDEU) of the Police Regional Office 6.
Thirty grams of shabu with an estimated street value of P150,000 were seized from them.
This was on top of the two sachets of the same substance Pondevida and Molina sold to undercover officers for P6,000, police said.
Operatives swooped down on them when they were in the house of Gomez’s sister Clarice, who was not around at the time, police said.
Undercover officers struck a drug sale deal with Gomez at around 6 p.m. last Wednesday but Pondevida and Molina were the ones who delivered the supply, said RDEU chief Senior Inspector Kennith Bermejo.
The suspects also yielded P10,000 believed to be drug sale proceeds.
Around six hours later, two brothers were arrested in Barangay Tabuc Suba, Jaro.
Villagers Crisan Miles, 27, and brother Christian, 30, sold to a poseur buyer a sachet of shabu for P1,000, police said.
Police seized from the younger Miles five sachets of shabu while his brother yielded a .45 pistol.
Pondevida, Molina and Villa were detained at the Mandurriao police station lockup facility. Bermejo stressed that Gomez will be included in the charges they will file.
The Miles brothers were incarcerated at the Jaro police station.
All five suspects face charges for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
Villa also faces an additional obstruction of justice charge after allegedly meddling in the police operation.
Bermejo said the suspects were believed to be under the group of slain drug lord Richard Prevendido.
And even before Prevendido was killed by police officers during an operation last year, Clarice Gomez was already a “high-value target level 2,” Bermejo claimed, citing intelligence information.
“The suspects took over [from Prevendido] and they operate not only in Mandurriao but also in neighboring barangays,” he added./PN
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