BY NOEL TALACAY AND RAYMOND AFRICA
OPERATIVES of the Southern Police District seized some P61.5 million worth of suspected shabu and arrested four suspected drug pushers in buy-bust operations in Taguig and Las Piñas City on Monday.
Agents of the Bulacan Police Provincial Office, meanwhile, killed a suspected drug pusher and arrested 10 other suspected drug users and pushers, three of them minors, in separate operations from Monday to Tuesday.
Gezel Wesley Villarin Oliveros, alias Boy, 26, who is in Taguig City’s drugs watchlist, was nabbed in a sting operation at 9 p.m. in Barangay Ususan. Seized from him were nine kilos of suspected shabu with a street value of P61.2 million; a weighing scale; and one cellphone
Earlier in Las Piñas City, operatives nabbed George Santos Fidelino, 56, a tricycle driver, in Barangay Zapote. He yielded 26.4 grams of suspected shabu with a street value of P179,520.
In another operation in Barangay Daniel Fajardo, Las Pinas, police nabbed Ronnie Valerio Gonzales Sr., 60; Lyka Sanchez Gonzales, 20; and Phillip De Venecia Acab, 22. Seized from them were 26.8 grams of suspected shabu with a street value of 182,240. Their cohort, identified as Ronnie Sanchez Gonzales, 30, managed to escape.
BULACAN OPS
Col. Lawrence Cajipe, Bulacan provincial police director, said Jayson Factor Landayan, a resident of Pulong Gubat, Balagtas, Bulacan, was killed when he shot it out with cops out to arrest him in a sting operation.
Recovered from Landayan were 17 heat-sealed plastic sachets of suspected shabu, a .38 caliber revolver without a serial number, a white Mitsubishi Lancer (WAN-648), drug paraphernalia, and the buy-bust money.
Cajipe said the 10 other suspects were arrested in operations conducted in the towns of Baliuag, Pandi, and City of San Jose. Several plastic sachets of suspected shabu, drug paraphernalia, and buy-bust money were recovered from them.
COP WOUNDED
A policeman was wounded after being shot at by the passengers of a van (XCV-512) that ignored a police checkpoint in Pasig City Tuesday morning.
Col. Moises Villaceran, local police chief, said Cpl. Villamor Talosig, assigned at the QCPD Station 12, is confined at the Medical City.
The driver of the van, Joselito Delos Santos, and his son, Jason, 24, both of Caloocan, sustained injuries when their vehicle crashed into a center island while they were trying to escape. They were arrested by pursuing cops.
Recovered from them were a Taurus .9mm pistol with two magazines and several boxes of liquor.
Police said cops manning a checkpoint on the southbound lane of C5 Road in Barangay Ugong flagged down the van driven by Delos Santos. Instead of stopping, the van sped off.
As cops gave chase, they were fired upon, with Talosig being hit. His companions returned fire and Delos Santos lost control of the van, which slammed into a center island. — With Christian Oineza
