POLICE ROUNDUP

GREEN GOLD -- Kalinga police director Col. Davy Vicente Limmong bared last lawmen  in the province destroyed some P44.5 million worth of marijuana in three separate operations from July 14 to 20. Here, lawmen pose for posterity in one of three plantation sites raided by government forces. – (Photo courtesy of Kalinga Police Provincial Director Col. Davy Vicente Limmong)

 P4.2-M marijuana burned in Benguet

By Liza Agoot  

KIBUNGAN, Benguet -- Some 35 kilos of abandoned dried marijuana stalks worth P4.2 million were found in a plantation here last week.
    Lt. Col. Rodelio Olsim, chief police information officer said the operation was conducted in Badeo, Kibungan on July 12 and 13.
    He said joint operatives from the 1st Benguet Provincial Mobile Force Company, Provincial Intelligence Unit and Drug Enforcement Unit with the Kibungan municipal police and the Regional Intelligence Division and Intelligence Unit discovered the abandoned dried marijuana stalks in two plantation sites at Sitio Naptong.
    Olsim said 20 kilo, worth P2.4 million, was found in one site on July 12 while the remaining 15 kilograms worth P1.8 million was discovered in another plantation site the following day.
    He said the plants were burned on site. Olsim said the operating troops are still at the mountain scouring the area for more hidden plantation areas.
    The police officer said that marijuana eradication continues not just in Benguet but also in Kalinga and other areas of the region. -- PNA 
 

P’sinan cop dies in motorcycle crash

By Eva Visperas
STA. MARIA, Pangasinan — A policeman died after his motorcycle crashed into a power post in this town on July 11,
Cpl. Mark Anthony Juanitez, 32, was declared dead on arrival at the Eastern Pangasinan District Hospital due to head and body injuries.
    Investigation showed that Juanitez, a member of the San Nicolas municipal police in this province, was traveling along the highway in Barangay Sta. Rosa when he figured in the accident.

3 drug suspects nabbed in Baguio

BAGUIO CITY -- A drug personality and two others were arrested while suspected shabu worth over P40,360 was seized from them by police and anti-narcotics agents during separate buy-bust operations in the city last week.
    Col. Glen Lonogan, city director of the Baguio City Police Office, said the joint sting operations resulted in the arrest of three suspects identified as Dlanor John Aquino Villanueva, 30; Sandra Marie Menis Waclin, 24; and Mike Kevin Ancheta Bane, 26. All were residents of Baguio City.
    In Lower Magsaysay, Villanueva, a high-value suspect, was arrested after selling one small, heat-sealed, transparent sachet, containing suspected shabu worth P3,000 to an operative, who acted as a poseur-buyer.
    During the course of his arrest, additional three heat-sealed, transparent sachets, containing suspected shabu worth P 13,600 and the buy-bust money, were seized from his possession.
    In Bakakeng Central, Marcos Highway, suspects Waclin and Bane were arrested after they sold a  sachet, containing suspected shabu worth P1,360 to an undercover operative.
    The operatives also seized three sachets containing suspected shabu worth P20,400 and one transparent ziplock bag, containing suspected shabu worth P2,000.
    The three suspects were brought to Camdas Police Station for documentation and proper disposition while cases for violation of Republic Act 9165 or the "Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002" were being prepared for filing against them.

 
 PNP seize P44.5-M marijuana in Kalinga

By Liza Agoot 

TINGLAYAN, Kalinga -- Government forces seized and burned P44.536 million worth of marijuana here last week.
Kalinga Police Provincial Director, Col. Davy Vicente Limmong, said the confiscated and later burned marijuana came from three operations from July 14 to 20.
    He said law enforcers conducted two simultaneous eradication operations on July 20 in two villages in Tinglayan, Kalinga.
    He said one team composed of personnel from the police provincial office, Regional and Provincial Mobile Force, the regional intelligence unit, and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency discovered three plantation sites in Barangay Loccong which led to the destruction of P21.5 million worth of marijuana.
    Another group of operatives also discovered six plantation sites in Barangay Butbut Proper which led to the destruction of P15.2 million worth of marijuana.
    Limmong said the government anti-illegal drug enforcers also destroyed 76,000 fully grown marijuana plants they found on 6,700 square meters plantation site.
    The suspects eluded arrest in both operations.
    He said that on July 14, Kalinga police also discovered three sacks of dried marijuana leaves and stalks on the roadside of the national highway at Sitio Anonang, Liwan West in Rizal, Kalinga.
    “Our operatives received information that a vehicle is transporting marijuana from Tabuk City to Tuguegarao, Cagayan which led to the setting up of checkpoints. Another information was received by the police about abandoned sacks on the side of the road," Limmong said.
    “We suspect that the person transporting it left the items after discovering that the police do an enhanced checking of vehicles passing on the checkpoints,” he added.
    Confiscated were 53 marijuana bricks and 24 tubular forms weighing 65.3 kilograms worth P7.836 million.
    “We continue to conduct operations to assure that the marijuana plants grown here will not be transported and brought to the cities,” Limmong said. 
    He also warned people involved in the illegal sale or transport of marijuana to stop their illegal activities. "You will be caught if not here in Kalinga, in other places even before you reach the destination where you are bringing the illegal drugs,” the police officer said. -- PNA 

P306-K shabu seized in Vizcaya; 2 fall in buy-bust

By Leander C. Domingo 

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya -- Two days of intensive police anti-illegal drug operations in this town have resulted in the confiscation of P306,000 worth of illegal drugs and the arrest of two suspected pushers, said police reports.

 Lt. Col. Andree Abella, Regional Police Office 2 information officer, identified the suspects that were separately arrested last week as Riza Marie de Manaoat Guzman, 40, a resident of Lingayen in Pangasinan, and Joseph Francisco Navarro alias Dado, 39, a resident of San Miguel in Bulacan.
    Abella said the suspects were caught selling illegal drugs to an agent of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in a drug buy-bust in Barangay Masoc in this town.

Confiscated from Guzman were nine heat-sealed, transparent, plastic sachets, containing 5 grams of shabu worth P34,000.

Seized from Navarro were 40 grams of suspected shabu worth P272,000. Also confiscated were P3,130 in cash, a digital weighing scale, a mobile phone, three caliber.45 ammunition, a caliber 9 mm ammunition and other drug paraphernalia.

Brig. Gen. Steve Ludan, newly installed PRO2 director, lauded the relentless efforts of the Cagayan Valley police and the PDEA in Region 2 for the series of successful anti-illegal operations in the region.

"These operations, in coordination with the PDEA, will be sustained in the entire region. I am warning those individuals and groups that are into this illegal activity that we will stop at nothing until the Cagayan Valley region is free of this menace," Ludan said.

36 wanted persons nabbed in Cordillera

CAMP DANGWA, La Trinidad, Benguet – Police arrested another 36 wanted persons with warrant of arrest from July 18 to 24.
    Records of the Regional Investigation and Detective Management Division bared Baguio City Police Office had the highest number of arrests with 10 followed by Benguet with 9; Abra, 6; Kalinga, 6; Ifugao, 3; Apayao and Mountain Province with one arrest each.
    Of the 36 arrested wanted persons, 10 were listed as most wanted, one in regional level, three, provincial; one, city; four, municipal and one in station level.
    Suspect Edwin Garduque Ramento listed no. 4 in regional level, was arrested for murder using illegal firearm.
In the provincial level, suspects Leonard Samuel Pimentel aka “Onad” listed as no. 4 and Arnel Bing-an Oggas listed as no. 6 were arrested for rape while Jhumer Evangelista aka Jhumer Taguiam Enquillado listed as no. 6 arrested for lasciviousness.
    Meanwhile, Romeo “Barawan” Dinalang Eway was arrested for rape.
Jessie Nadiahan Tundagui was arrested for alleged violation of Republic Act 9262 or Anti-Violence against Women and their Children and Joey Palaleo Dao-as was apprehended for frustrated murder.
    Both were listed as no. 2 MWP in different provinces while Mark Antony Jessen Manangbao was listed no. 6.
Belac Dingsoy Gonnawa, listed as no. 7 MWP faced charges for theft.
Meanwhile, Karl Leonid Rico Silvanetto was arrested for estafa.

11 nabbed for selling shabu to Cordi cops

CAMP DANGWA, La Trinidad, Benguet – Eleven persons were arrested in the Cordillera recently for selling “shabu” to lawmen in buy-bust operations, reports from  regional police headquarters here under Cordillera police director Brig. Gen. Ronald O. Lee said.
    Four of suspects were arrested in buy-bust operations in Kalinga, Benguet, and Baguio City on July 26, the police regional information office bared in a press dispatch,
    Suspects were identified as Ronnick Caminos Apas, 31; George Jr. Lastimosa, 42; Jeffrey Macabangun Calata, 28; and Jerry Lloyd Peñaranda, 30.
    In Tabuk City, Kalinga, Bua-ay was nabbed for selling a gram of suspected shabu worth P680 to a cop.
An additional P680 worth of shabu was arrested from him.
    In Balsigan, Baguio City, police arrested Peñaranda for selling a sachet of suspected shabu weighing 0.5 grams worth P3,400 to a cop.
    In Quezon Hill Proper, Baguio City, another buy-bust operation conducted by operatives of Baguio resulted in the arrest of Calata after he sold suspected shabu worth P4,080 to a cop.
    In La Trinidad, Benguet, Apas was arrested after he sold two sachets of suspected shabu worth  P816 to a lawman.
    Charges for illegal drugs were all filed against the suspects.
    Meanwhile, the alleged leader of a criminal gang and his two accomplices were arrested for selling suspected shabu worth P78,200 in a buy-bust operation at Purok 4, Lopez Jaena, Aurora Hill, Baguio City on July 25.
    The suspects were identified as Erwin Dela Peña Roc, 30; Briggs Austria Balacdao, 29 and Paolo Julian Cariño Estacio, 29.  
    Police said Roc had been monitored by operatives for illegal drugs and theft  while Balacdao was identified as the leader of Balacdao theft group, a criminal gang operating in Baguio City.
    The suspects were arrested after selling shabu weighing 20 grams worth P68,000 to a co who acted as buyer.
    Police seized another sachet of suspected shabu weighing one gram worth P6,800 from Balacdao, while 0.5 gram worth P3,400 was confiscated from Estacio.
    The cellphones drug money and red Innova vehicle used by the suspects was also seized by the operatives.
Inventory of seized items was were done at the site witnessed by prosecutor Isabelo Oliver Prudencio, Lopez Jaena village chief Carlos M. Asiatico and  Charles Nikko Limon Jr. of RNG Luzon.
    Two persons were also arrested in Bakakeng, Rizal Park and Kagitingan all in Baguio City on July 25 and 26.
    Suspects were identified as Michael Orlanda Bassit, 50; John Michael Pamittan Damian, 33; Vivian Singson, 52; Leandro Santos Canalete, 40; Fernan Buayan Vicente, 32 and Jefferson Torres Dulay, 29.
    The suspects were in top ten of drug watch list of PNP Cordillera.
    In Rizal Park, Bassit was nabbed for selling shabu worth to P4,760 to a lawman.
    Another five grams of shabu worth P34,000 was also seized from him.
    In North Bakakeng, Damian, Singson and Canalete were nabbed for selling suspected shabu worth P7,500 to a lawman.         An additional P15,000 worth of shabu was seized from the suspects.
    In Kagitingan Barangay, Vicente and Dulay, were apprehended after they sold shabu worth P34,000 to a cop.
    Suspected “shabu” weighing 2.5 grams worth of P17,000 was seized from Dulay.
    In Bangued, Abra, nabbed July 23 was Mark Marvin Briones Mendoza, 35in  Sitio Kabildatan, Zone 7.
Mendoza was arrested after he sold to a cop 0.2 grams of suspected shabu worth
P1,360 to a cop.
    An additional 0.8 grams or shabu worth P5, 400 was seized from him
    In Viloria Street, Purok 2, Bulanao, Tabuk City, Kalinga Jejomar Sumo aka “Bato,” 33, laborer, was also nabbed July 23.
"Bato" allegedly sold three sachets of suspected shabu weighing one gram worth P6,800 to a cop.
 

7 held in Abra Benguet, over jueteng, cards

SABLAN, Benguet -- Seven persons were arrested for playing “Majong” and “Pusoy dos” and collecting jueteng bets in two separate operations in Benguet and Abra July 26 and 27, reports to Cordillera police director Brig. Gen. Ronald O. Lee bared.  

In Monglo, Bayabas, Sablan, Benguet, two men identified as Charlie Abarico Berbo, 52, and Jericson Barca Abuan, 31, were nabbed for collecting bets for "jueteng".
    Confiscate4d from them were P1,345 bet money and jueteng paraphernalia.
    The suspects and confiscated pieces of evidence were brought to Criminal Investigation and Detection Group office where charges for illegal gambling were prepared against them.

Meanwhile, nabbed in North Poblacion, Bucay, Abra for plying “mahjong” and “pusoy dos” were Angelito Soriano Arceo, 52, gambling operator and four bettors identified as  Marcos Makape Torres, 68; Precious Torres Declaro, 31; Analyn Figuerres Galicia, 28; Pedro Timbreza Tebia, 70; and Nadhir Astudillo Bermudez, 46.

Seized from them were gambling paraphernalia and P1,819 bet money worth P1,819.