SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union -- Police operatives
arrested 23 people allegedly involved in “jueteng” as they launched a crackdown
on the illegal numbers game in Pangasinan, the Police Regional Office 1
director reported yesterday.
Senior Supt. Moro
Virgilio M. Lazo, Officer-in-Charge of the PRO1), said the 23 were rounded up
in simultaneous entrapments in the town of Umingan.
Lazo identified the
suspects and the areas of coverage in Umingan as Basilla Domingo, Jose Tabada,
Mateo Barientos, Marcelo Vidal, Eduardo Cortez in Poblacion West; Arcenio
Galelta and Amado Castillo in Nancalabasaan; Edgardo Prepose, Corzillo Siblang
and Rorego Santaroza in Cuardanetaan;
Rodrigo Ramos and
Nicole Abad in Luna Este; Rolando Pascua, Renato Operana, and Fredo
Organo in Maseil-seil; Lucena Tolentino and Elsa Bedro in Poblacio East; and
Juana Tamayo and Cristy Bello in Villa Bantug.
He added that three of
the suspects – Aljade Ramos, Mark James Ramos and Nestor Gonzales – are
residents of Rosario, Batangas, while Alay Austria is from Paniqui, Tarlac.
Lazo said the suspects
were collared last Monday in an entrapment conducted after receiving
intelligence report about the operation of illegal number games in Umingan.
He said that suspects
were caught in the house of Basilla Domingo, 85, while they are remitting and consolidating
bets.
The raiding team
seized cash amounting to P8,322 in various denominations, papelitos, and other
jueteng paraphernalia.
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