Pangasinan cities named as drug shipment points
>> Sunday, June 24, 2012
By Jennelyn Mondejar
DAGUPAN
CITY – The regional director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency
has tagged Dagupan and Urdaneta cities as transshipment points of illegal drugs
in Region 1.
During
the signing of a memorandum of agreement with sectors to strengthen the fight
against illegal drugs here, Edgar Apalla told newsmen here it is in the two
cities where drugs from Metro Manila, Cavite, Bulacan and Camiling in Tarlac
are brought for distribution to nearby towns of Pangasinan, Baguio City and
Ilocos Norte.
Apalla
said they have also identified certain drug personalities, but could not just
arrest them, citing ”some technicalities.”
Dagupan
City Mayor Benjamin Lim, however, said his city was not a trans shipment point
but “a drop-off point.”
“It
means they (drug traffickers) have customers here and from Dagupan. The drugs
were distributed to other towns,” Lim said.
“We
are warning traffickers and suppliers to go slow because we are watching you,”
Lim added.
He
also warned law enforcement officers in cahoots with illegal drug
syndicates.
Lim
said law enforcers were monitoring activities of around 72 suspected drug
pushers, who were in the list provided by city police chief Supt. Romeo Caramat
Jr.
“In
the next few days, we would undertake steps to slowly solve this problem,” he
said. “I am dead serious about this. I want to see our city drug-free but I
cannot do it alone.”
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