UNDER SURVEILLANCE. Col. Gilbert Gorero, director of the Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO), said on Thursday (April 22, 2021) that a former inmate of the National Bilibid Prison was killed in a shootout during a buy-bust in Janiuay, Iloilo on Wednesday (April 21, 2021). A suspect was arrested while another escaped. (PNA file photo)
ILOILO CITY – Some PHP544,000 worth of shabu were seized while a former inmate was killed in a shootout with police during a buy-bust in Sitio Cantil, Barangay Damires in Janiauy, Iloilo on Wednesday.
Col. Gilbert Gorero, director of the Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO), in a phone interview Thursday, identified the fatality as Deniel Dalisay,33, who was released from the National Bilibid Prison on March 4, 2021 after serving his sentence for illegal possession of firearms.
The anti-drug operation also resulted in the arrest of Eugene Garzon, 33, husband of Dalisay's cousin, while their accomplice identified only as "Tarzan" escaped.
Dalisay, who was from Barangay Balabag, Pavia, moved to Garzon's house in Janiauy after he sensed that he was being monitored by the police.
He was killed in a shootout with authorities during a police operation.
The three, according to the police report, sold to the police poseur buyer one sachet of shabu.
Recovered at the site were 11 sachets of shabu estimated to be weighing 80 grams and worth PHP554,000, a cal. 9mm pistol with five ammunition, an empty cartridge of cal. 9mm, PHP15,000 buy-bust money and PHP3,470 believed to be proceeds from the drug sales, and a list of collectibles worth hundreds of thousands.
Gorero said the suspects have no specific areas of distribution but would only sell to those who would approach them.
He added that no syndicated drug group is operating in Iloilo. (PNA)
