66 grams 'shabu' seized; 3 nabbed in Baguio City

By Dionisio Dennis, Jr.  

BAGUIO CITY – Law enforcers nabbed three persons in sring operations here recently which led to the seizure of 66 grams of suspected shabu.
    Director Gil Ceasario Castro, of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Cordillera Administrative Region, said the arrests were a result of the two operations -- one in Barangay Imelda and the other in Sto. Tomas Proper.
    Seized were 66 grams of shabu worth P448,800.
    Arrested in the first operation led by Baguio City Police Office Station 5 chief Capt. Ralph Dayag were Joshua Stephen Aluyon     Alsisto also known as “Pidot”, 27, single, unemployed, resident of 84-1 Lower Malvar St., Trancoville; and Denise Gayle Serrano Valencia, 26, resident of 26 Red Alley, Lower QM.
    They yielded 65 grams of shabu worth P442,000.
    Two persons eluded arrest in said operation -- Brian Leonile Dris, resident of Unit 9 No. 12 Imelda Barangay, who was identified as the owner of the boarding house where the arrest was conducted, and another John Doe.
    Castro said follow-up operations are ongoing to get the two suspects.
    Castro said the two arrested suspects were the source of illegal drugs in the region with the male being an ex-convict.
    He said authorities are seeing a big group behind the two believed to be a direct link to an earlier arrest involving an enforcer in this city.
    Castro said that a firearm and several other ammunition were confiscated from the two suspects.
    “Pieces of evidence connote that these individuals are a threat and they pose danger to the people of Baguio,” he said.
    Arrested in the second operation was Rodolfo Ressurection, 31, single, welder, and resident of Sto. Niño, Barangay Irisan.         Seized from him was one gram of shabu worth P6,800. Castro said those violating the law will have their time in jail.  
    Meanwhile, the PDEA’s another drug personality was captured along De Jesus Street, South Central. Baguio City afternoon of Dec. 1, a police regional report said.
    Joint drug operatives of the Baguio City Police Office and Regional Drug Enforcement Unit in coordination with the PDEA arrested Daniel Joseph C. Vinluan, 30, of San Antonio Village, Aurora Hill.
    During the buy-bust operation, Vinluan sold a plastic sachet containing suspected shabu to one of the operatives who posed as buyers.
    Cash of P1,00 buy-bust money and a plastic sachet containing suspected shabu were confiscated from him. With a PNA report