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BY BOY RYAN ZABAL
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KALIBO, Aklan – The top drug suspect who escaped the lockup cell at the Nabas police station surrendered after three days of hiding.
Drug suspect Ranil Magcuha turned himself in to Nabas mayor James Solanoy here on Sunday.
“He (Magcuha) reached me, so I convinced him to surrender,” Solanoy said in a phone interview on the same day. “He was alone. It’s good because he could get hurt in a manhunt operation.”
The mayor turned over the 44-year old Magcuha to Assistant Provincial Prosecutor Flosemer Chris Gonzales.
“It’s difficult for Magcuha to keep hiding from the police,” Solanoy said. “He was a former police asset. He helped catch several drug suspects in Nabas.”
Nabas officers rearrested Magcuha — No. 1 in the municipal police’s watch list of drug personalities — at the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office here, ending a three-day intensified manhunt.
The suspect, also known as “Padoy,” was first arrested on Oct. 19 after selling to an undercover police officer a sachet of suspected shabu for P1,000. He was detained but escaped the following day.
Police also searched his house in Barangay Unidos, Nabas where they seized seven small packs of the same substance.
Magcuha managed to flee through a small hole in the cell of the police station that was undergoing renovation.
Senior Superintendent John Mitchell Jamili, provincial police director, gave Chief Inspector Belshazzar Villanoche, Nabas police head, and his men 48 hours to recapture the escapee but gave them 12 hours more after Magcuha started sending them surrender feelers.
Villanoche said Magcuha was turned over to the Aklan Rehabilitation Center in Barangay Nalook here.
The suspect was facing charges for violation of sections 5 (sale) and 11 (possession) of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
The Aklan Police Provincial Office formed a fact-finding team to investigate the liability of Nabas police officers for the escape. (Aklan Forum Journal/PN)
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