PROCOR CAMP BADO DANGWA – Seven persons were successively arrested by combined police operatives and anti-narcotics agents during separate buy bust operations and implementation of warrants of arrest in different parts of the region recently.
In a buy-bust operation, five drug peddlers were arrested at around 5:00 AM at Amistad Compound, Km. 3 Asin rd., Baguio City by the operating units of Police Station 1, Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU), BCPO and members of the PDEA-CAR.
Senior Superintendent Ramil Saculles, officer-in-charge of the Baguio City Police Office, identified the arrested drug peddlers as Aladin Crisostomo Bumakil alias Tags; Jerome Crisostomo Bumakil; Sebastien Villalon Alejandre; Kurt Allison Caaya Callanta; and Leonard Vincent Dasig Velasco.
Confiscated from their possessions were 5 heat sealed transparent plastic sachet containing suspected shabu, buy-bust money amounting to P2,000.00, assorted drug paraphernalia, one coin purse and 5 cellular phones.
Likewise, joint personnel of Police Station 9 and Criminal Investigation Unit (CIU), BCPO in coordination with operatives of the Pozorrubio Police Station, Pangasinan arrested two drug suspects at around 11:30 AM in their residence. Operatives identified the arrested live-in partners as Arnold Castro Soriano, 48, driver; and Cherry Lacuata Licaycay, 41, reflexologist, both residents of Purok 12, Irisan, Baguio City. The arrest was made by virtue of a Warrant of Arrest issued by Judge Tita S. Obinario of RTC Branch 45, Urdaneta City, Pangasinan for a case of Illegal Possession in violation of the Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
Confiscated from the possession of Soriano were six pieces of heat sealed transparent plastic sachet containing suspected Shabu; one Pouch and assorted drug paraphernalia
All arrested suspects are now under the custody of the concerned operating units while appropriate charges are being prepared against them in court.
Police Chief Supt. Francis Sarona instructed all police units to sustain this momentum and run after illegal drugs in urban centers as well as the countryside. He added that PROCOR will continue to hit hard and show no mercy on organized crime groups behind the manufacture, cultivation and trafficking of illegal drugs in support of the national anti-drug campaign.
By Dexter A. See
