10 traffickers fall in 2-day anti-narcotics operations
Local News • 09:15 AM Fri Oct 4, 2019
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By:
John M. Unson
COTABATO CITY --- Units of the Police Regional Office-12 arrested 10 large-scale shabu peddlers, one of them a woman, in two days of operations in different central Mindanao provinces.
In a statement Friday, the PRO-12 said among those nabbed in the simultaneous operations that lasted from early Tuesday until late Wednesday were a woman and two others distributing shabu in different barangays in Polomolok town in South Cotabato.
The suspects --- Ailyn Celiz, Mark Jil Española, Alfredo Pescasiosa --- are now detained.
Kim Benjie Rafael Sadiang and Michael Permetes Dequina were arrested in separate raids in nearby Tantangan town also in South Cotabato.
The PRO-12 said Ryan Maladia, Bualan Salaysay and Cerado Morales were arrested in Malapatan town in Sarangani, in Kidapawan City and in Surallah, South Cotabato, respectively.
Mark James Pama Villaruz also fell in an entrapment operation in Kidapawan City on the same day.
The last to fall was Jonathan Viray, caught in Cotabato City while in the act of selling shabu to a police officer disguised as drug dependent.
Lt. Col. Lino Capellan, chief of PRO-12’s information office, said all ten suspects shall be charged with violation of Republic Act 9165, also known as Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, using the shabu confiscated from them as evidence.