Charges filed vsbocap, three others for shabu

By Mar T. Supnad

BADOC, Ilocos Norte– Court charges for illegal drugs were filed against a barangay chairman and three other suspects after they were arrested in a buy-bust operation by anti-narcotics agents here June 17.

Acting on several intelligence reports that a certain Josie Cajigal and her family were selling shabu in their house, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Regional Office 1 agents with Ilocos Norte Provincial Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group and Provincial Intelligence Branch went to Barangay Santa Cruz here to entrap the family.

Law enforcers placed themselves around Cajigal’s house while an anti-narcotics agent with a confidential informant entered the residence to order shabu.

It was Norberto Cajigal, 27, also known as “Atong,” son of Josie who entertained the agents who reportedly asked her mother Josie to get the illegal drugs.

Josie handed a sachet of shabu to her nephew, who was later identified as FloferCajigal 26, who in turn gave it to Atong.

Atong completed the transaction by giving the shabu and pocketing the marked money making law enforcers arrest them.

SesinandoToralba, barangay chairman of Barangay 3, Alogoong here who was reportedly in the house reacted to the arrest by trying to escape but was eventually caught.

In his possession was a pouch filled with shabu paraphernalia.

A drug test confirmed the barangay chairman as a shabu user and was later charged with violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

Other confiscated items from the drug pushing family included four sachets of shabu valued at P1,000 each, drug paraphernalia and the marked money used in the illegal drug transaction.