November 23, 2010
TF Bakhaw to cover Odicta drug haven
By Tara Yap
MALIPAYON-DELGADO is next on the list of the region’s top cop who makes a high profile pitch on wiping out the illegal drug trade in Iloilo City.
‘Fortress of illegal drugs’
By Francis Allan L. Angelo
WESTERN Visayas’ top cop could only shake his head when he saw the reportedly notorious hub of illegal drug operations at Brgy. Bakhaw, Mandurriao, Iloilo City.
Cops deployed in 7 entry, exit points
By Tara Yap
THE PNP’s Task Force Bakhaw is keeping vigil in key entrance and exit points of Brgy. Bakhaw, Mandurriao, Iloilo City after it was reactivated over the weekend.
Promotions for cops in P7-M cocaine haul
By Francis Allan L. Angelo
PROMOTIONS await police officers who helped track down and recover P7-million worth of cocaine from a suspected drug pusher in Miag-ao, Iloilo Tuesday.
P7-M CATCH
Cocaine seized in Miag-ao
By Francis Allan L. Angelo
THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA-6) scored their biggest haul this year after seizing almost a kilo of suspected cocaine in Miag-ao, Iloilo Tuesday.
The 800-gram cocaine, believed to be 97% pure, was recovered from suspect Carlito Buen, 48, of Crossing Valencia, Brgy. Maninila after a buy-bust operation.
PDEA-6 head Paul Ledesma said a poseur-buyer initially bought P1,000 worth of illegal drugs from Buen. The buyer then offered to buy more cocaine from the suspect for P43,000. Buen then showed a brick of the suspected illegal drug prompting PDEA operatives to arrest him.
Ledesma said the recovered cocaine could be part of the Samar cocaine stashed away by a Hong Kong bound Chinese fishing vessel near the Eastern Visayas island last year.
“The packing of the cocaine is similar to those recovered by narcotics agents in Samar,” he said.
Sensing that they were already under the surveillance by International Drug Enforcement Agencies, the Chinese fishing vessel, which came from South America, dumped its hot cargo of 1.5 tons of cocaine within the sea waters of Northern and Eastern Samar.
Ledesma said the cocaine recovered from Buen could be worth more or less P7 million.
Based on the information supplied by PDEA, Buen sells fighting cocks in Luzon. Authorities believe he may have secured the cocaine in Luzon and brought it to Iloilo via the roll on-roll off system.
Ledesma said they gathered information on Buen’s operation through the Miag-ao and Guimbal police forces.
Buen is currently in the custody of PDEA pending the filing of charges against him.
November 15, 2010
Lamis suspects still in Iloilo
By Francis Allan L. Angelo
THE main suspects in the assassination of a police officer are still in Iloilo, according to the PNP and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA).
November 12, 2010
Suspects in slay of cop charged
Hired assassins of a drug syndicate – police
By Tara Yap
THE quest for justice in the murder of PO2 Joemarie Lamis has rolled off as charges were filed against his suspected killers.
PDEA twits rumors on death list of cops
By Francis Allan L. Angelo
DRUG syndicates are trying to scare the police and anti-drug agents by spreading yarns that more cops in Iloilo City are on their death list.
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