Suspected Odicta aide busted for shabu

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BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
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Sunday, February 5, 2017
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ILOILO City – A man linked to slain suspected drug lord Melvin Odicta Sr. was arrested in an antidrug operation of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Region 6 in Barangay Boulevard, Molo district.

Around 4 p.m. on Friday, the 44-year-old John Mino sold a sachet of shabu for P1,500 to an undercover PDEA operative. He was immediately caught.

According to PDEA, Mino was a subgroup leader of Odicta.

Senior Inspector Marlon Valencia, Molo police chief, considered Mino a high-value target.

Four more sachets of shabu were recovered from the suspect.

“Mino left his house to hide from the police last year,” said Valencia.

Odicta was gunned down on Aug. 29, 2016 with wife Meriam at the jetty port in Caticlan, Malay, Aklan. Their assassins remained unidentified.

The police’s Regional Special Operations Group and Molo police station assisted PDEA in arresting Mino.

The suspect was detained at the agency’s detention facility at Fort San Pedro.

PDEA is now the lead agency in the government’s war on drugs. Citing a series of police involvement in the illegal drug trade and planting of evidence during antidrug operations, Philippine National Police director General Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa suspended indefinitely the police’s antidrug campaign.

Still, the Iloilo City Police Office will continuously feed PDEA with information to help the agency, said Senor Superintendent Remus Zacharias Canieso, Iloilo City police director./PN

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