Law enforcement authorities in Negros Oriental scored anew in their relentless campaign against illegal drugs following the arrest of three suspected illegal drug pushers and seizure of firearms and ammunitions in a raid in Bayawan City in Negros Oriental.
Police identified those arrested as Alex Quindo alias Bimbo, Aljun Ryan Quindo and Paul Quindo, all residents of Gomez Street, Bayawan City three separate operations conducted on the same day in the province.
An initial police report said that joint operatives of the Philippine National Police Provincial Anti-illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group, National Bureau of Investigation and Bayawan City police swooped down on the suspects at dawn Wednesday during a buy-bust and entrapment operation and serving of a search warrant.
Police said that first arrested was Alex Quindo during a buy-bust operation wherein he alleged sold a transparent plastic sachet containing suspected shabu to an undercover agent, worth P500. Following his arrest, the law enforcers served a search warrant, dated Nov. 6, 2012, by RTC Branch 63 Judge Ananson Jayme.
The subsequent raid at the Quindo residence yielded heat-sealed plastic sachets with suspected shabu and other drug paraphernalia, a silver-plated .357 Magnum revolver with six live rounds of ammo without a serial number, a Smith and Wesson snub-nosed revolver, also without serial number and with five live rounds, a Black Widow .22 caliber revolver with five live rounds and several rounds of live ammunition for various calibers.
The suspects are now detained at the Bayawan police station’s lock-up facility as authorities filed charges against them in violation of Sections 5, 11 and 12 of Article II of Republic Act 9165 or the Dangerous Drugs Act as amended, and for illegal possession of firearms and ammunitions under Presidential Decree 1866, as amended by Republic Act 8294.
Meanwhile, a suspected drug pusher, Janel Catadman, 20, single, and a resident of EJ Blanco Drive in Barangay Piapi, Dumaguete City, was arrested 2:30 p.m. Wednesday following a buy-bust operation conducted by joint elements of the PNP’s Special Operations Group, the NBI and the local team of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency.
Catadman, who was arrested in Purok Gumamela in the sub-village of Canday-ong in Calindagan is now detained pending the filing of formal charges against her after authorities seized from her a plastic sachet containing suspected shabu.
Hours later, in the evening of the same day, another team of law enforcement agents raided the house of a suspected drug pusher, Silverio Gadoz, Jr., 33, married, in Barangay Looc, Dumaguete City.
During the raid, authorities confiscated 16 heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets of suspected shabu, and P28,600 cash believed to be drug sales proceeds.
An alleged customer, Abner Macalisang Bayot, 26, single of Zone 2, Looc, was apprehended after a search yielded a plastic sachet of shabu from him.
Bayot was believed to have purchased the suspected shabu from Gadoz. (PNA)
