Friday, June 24, 2022

Cordillera cops nab 29 wanted persons; 7 for illegal drugs

CAMP DANGWA, La Trinidad, Benguet – Police arrested wanted 29 persons in Cordillera from May 29 to June 4, five more for illegal drugs on June 6 and two for the latter offense on June 7.
    Arrested June 7 were Loreto M. Brudo, 53, and Gabriel Cuevas Froline Gasmeña, 28 in Baguio and La Trinidad respectively.
    Gasmeña was arrested by police after he sold marijuana leaves worth P120 to a lawman.
    In La Trinidad, Benguet, Brudo was arrested after he sold suspected shabu worth P2,244 to a cop who acted as buyer.
    In Kiangan, Ifugao, following the arrest of a certain Tacio in a buy-bust operation on June 6, his confession led to the discovery of four grown marijuana plants and 30 marijuana seedlings worth P2,000.00 in his residential compound at Barangay Julongan.
    Meanwhile, based on records from the Regional Investigation and Detective Management Division, for the week, Baguio recorded the highest number of arrests with 12, followed by Benguet with six,  Abra, five; Apayao and Kalinga with two each and Ifugao and Mt. Province with one arrest each.
    Among those arrested was Ernesto Damaso Sagucio, no. 4 most wanted person in Apayao who was wanted for rape.
    This, as regional police director Brig. Gen. Ronald O. Lee identified the arrested drug suspects: Dawn Marie Agudo, 32; Hesus Sandino Laygo, 27; Andrain Rodrigues, 33; Badilio Tacio, 52 and Analyn Belita 29.
    In Kalinga, Agudo, Laygo, and Rodrigues were arrested by joint operatives of the Regional PNP Drug Enforcement Unit and Kalinga police at a checkpoint in Lubuagan.
    Prior to their arrest, information was received by Lubuagan police regarding marijuana transportation using a sedan coming from Tinglayan to Tabuk City, Kalinga which prompted the immediate establishment of a checkpoint at Sitio Dinakan, Lubuagan, where they flagged down a vehicle matching the same description.
    The operation resulted in the arrest of the suspects after four tubular forms of marijuana stalks weighing more or less 4,000 grams worth P480,000 and one marijuana stalk weighing 2.5 grams valued at P300 were confiscated from the suspects.
    Meanwhile, in a buy-bust operation in Ifugao, elements of Ifugao police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency arrested suspects Tacio and Belita after they sold marijuana leaves worth P97.20 to a lawman.

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