DRUG INVENTORY. Items seized from two suspects arrested Monday evening (Nov. 23, 2020) were inventoried in the presence of the media, elected officials, and a prosecutor. Confiscated were suspected shabu weighing 65 grams estimated worth PHP442,000. (Photo courtesy of PDEA-CAR)
BAGUIO CITY – Law enforcers have nabbed three persons in string operations on Monday evening and Tuesday dawn here, which led to the seizure of 66 grams of suspected shabu.
Director Gil Ceasario Castro, of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-Cordillera Administrative Region (PDEA-CAR), said the arrests were a result of the two operations -- one in Barangay Imelda at around 8:40 p.m. Monday and the other in Sto. Tomas Proper around 2:00 a.m. Tuesday.
Seized were 66 grams of shabu worth PHP448,800.
Arrested in the first operation led by Baguio City Police Office Station 5 chief Capt. Ralph Dayag were Joshua Stephen Aluyon Alsisto also known as “Pidot”, 27, single, unemployed, resident of 84-1 Lower Malvar St., Trancoville; and Denise Gayle Serrano Valencia, 26, resident of 26 Red Alley, Lower QM. They yielded 65 grams of shabu worth PHP442,000.
Two persons eluded arrest in said operation -- Brian Leonile Dris, resident of Unit 9 No. 12 Imelda Barangay, who was identified as the owner of the boarding house where the arrest was conducted, and another John Doe.
Castro said follow-up operations are ongoing to get the two suspects.
Castro said the two arrested suspects were the source of illegal drugs in the region with the male being an ex-convict.
He said authorities are seeing a big group behind the two believed to be a direct link to an earlier arrest involving an enforcer in this city.
Castro said that a firearm and several other ammunition were confiscated from the two suspects.
“Pieces of evidence connote that these individuals are a threat and they pose danger to the people of Baguio,” he said.
Arrested in the second operation was Rodolfo Ressurection, 31, single, welder, and resident of Sto. Niño, Barangay Irisan. Seized from him was one gram of shabu worth PHP6,800. Castro said those violating the law will have their time in jail. (PNA)
