POLICE ROUNDUP

SK Kagawad, buddy busted for drug sale

BAGUIO CITY -- A Sangguniang Kabataan kagawad and another suspect were arrested by Baguio police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency agents here at Poliwes evening of May 24.  

In Camp Dangwa, Cordillera police director Brig. Gen. Ronald Oliver Lee Based identified the arrested suspects as Kenneth Bryan Aberin Balalang, 23, SK kagawad of Poliwes and Lorryanne Estioco Cordova, 21, unemployed.
City police director Allen Rae Co. said police arrested the suspects after selling marijuana leaves weighing 15 grams worth P1,500 to a cop who acted as buyer.

Seized from Balalang’s possession was the buy-bust money.

Inventory of seized items was witnessed by barangay kagawad Maria A. Balabag, media representativeCharles Niko Limon and Prosecutor Don Immanuel Vergara.

Balalang and Cordova, along with the confiscated items were brought to Abanao police station for documentation and proper disposition where a case for illegal drugs was prepared against them.

Porter nabbed in La Trinidad for selling shabu

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – A man was arrested here May 20 for illegal drugs. Based on the reports sent to Cordillera police director Brig. Gen. Ronald O. Lee, police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency elements arrested Rey Mark Torres Lacanaria, 23, porter, after he sold a sachet of suspected shabu weighing 0.30 grams worth P2,040 to a cop at km 5, Barangay Pico. Other items seized from the suspect were suspected shabu weighing 0.20 grams, P1,360 and cell phone. Inventory of all seized items was done onsite in the presence of a barangay councilor of Pico and Dept. of Justice representative. Lacanaria and confiscated evidence were brought to La Trinidad Municipal Police Station and is now facing charges for violation of Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 (Republic Act 9165).

 

‘Druggies’ nabbed in Ilocos Sur town

SINAIT, Ilocos Sur -- Two drug suspects were arrested in a sting here May 23. Marc June Quebral, 31, and Robin Bermudez, 27, reportedly sold a sachet of shabu to an undercover agent in Barangay Paratong, according to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency.
    Quebral reportedly ranked 10th in the drug list of the PDEA-Ilocos region.

Bermudez reportedly served as driver of Quebral during the transaction.

Police said they seized from the suspects two more plastic sachets containing shabu with an estimated street value of P20,000.

Quebral and Bermudez are detained at the Sinait police. Court charges were prepared against them.

On the same day, another drug suspect in the watchlist of the Cordillera police was arrested in Tabuk, Kalinga.

Bernel Bigot, 24, reportedly sold 10 kilos of marijuana bricks with an estimated street value of P1.2 million to an undercover agent in Barangay Kalagdao.

 

Farmer held for illegal firearms in Kalinga

PINUKPUK, Kalinga – A farmer is now facing charges for violation of Republic Act 10591 or the Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulation Act after he was reported for firing indiscriminately here at Sitio Bayug, Junction afternoon of May 22.
    Brig. Gen. Ronald O. Lee, at the regional police headquarters in Camp Dangwa, La Trinidad, Benguet, identified the suspect as Pedro Urdas Juan, 50, farmer, of Junction, Pinukpuk.
    Kalinga police director Col. Davy Limmong reportedly received a call from Pinukpuk Mayor Irving B. Dasayon, about a man who was firing a gun at the grasslands of Sitio Bayug.

Dasayon and residents pinpointed location of the suspect to police who saw Juan sitting in front of his bunkhouse holding his firearm.

They approached the suspect and asked him for documents or license of the gun he was holding but he failed to show any.

He was arrested by police.

Also seized from Juan was a 12-gauge shotgun without markings and serial number.

Juan and the seized item were brought to Pinukpuk police station.

Sinait bocap stabbed dead

By Mar T. Supnad

SINAIT, Ilocos Sur -- A barangay councilor was stabbed dead here night of May 22 for trying to pacify trouble in a residential house among family members. 1
    Police identified the victim as Juwee A. Guzman, 45, of Barangay Sallacapo.
    The suspect was Joey A. Ibaan, also of Sallacapo.
    According to report, town police immediately responded to verify the report that a trouble was in progress in said barangay.

Police later learned that the councilor was stabbed dead by the suspect.

The victim was rushed to ISDH Sinait for medical attention but attending physician Dr. Editha Rondal Friala declared him dead on arrival.

Investigation conducted by the police disclosed that the victim went to the house of the suspect to pacify the trouble when the suspect got irritated and stabbed the victim hitting on his left shoulder.

The suspect was arrested by the responding personnel of Sinait PS.

Weapon used was also recovered, a knife.

The suspect and weapon used in stabbing are now under the custody of Sinait police. 

3 arrested in Ilocos Sur for illegal guns, bullets

By Mar T. Supnad

CAMP QUIRINO, Ilocos Sur- Three persons were arrested May 21 in conducted by police that also resulted to confiscation of illegal guns and bullets. 

A police report said Bobby T. Delizo, 45 was nabbed when policemen
raided his house at Barangay Lubong, Sta. Maria town following search warrant issued by Fatima Vitamog-Querubin, acting presiding judge of RTC Branch 22 Narvacan that resulted to seizure of a Cal. 9 mm pistol loaded with a bullet and two bullets for Cal. 38.

In Dasay, Narvacan, suspect Warlito C. Molina Jr. was also arrested after police seized from his house a Cal. 38 and bullets without permit.

In Amguid, Candon City, police arrested Dominador Pascua, 61 for illegally possessing a bullet of Cal. 45 handgun.

No gun was taken from him.