BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN
A follow up operation of the police on Sunday night, in Brgy. 2, Silay City, Negros Occidental, led to the confiscation of more than a kilo of suspected shabu with an estimated market value of P7.5 million, from an arrested drug courier, disclosed yesterday by city police chief Lt. Col. Mark Anthony Darroca.
Darroca said that the arrest of Mark Villaran, alias Maco, was a result of information they got from two women, Angie and Angielyn Dumdumaya, whose earlier apprehension in Brgy. Lantad, Silay City, yielded more than two kilos of suspected shabu with a market value of P13.6 million.
Within a span of one day, operatives of the Regional Drug Enforcement Unit 6 and local police have seized from three drug suspects, more than P21 million worth of illegal drugs in Silay City alone.
Initial police investigations further showed that the shabu, escorted by couriers, is being transported from Manila and neighboring provinces to Negros Occidental via Roll on- Roll off vessels, using cargo trucks, from a port in Batangas to Mindoro-Caticlan-Dumangas in Iloilo.
Darroca said that the Dumdumaya sisters served as “bodegera”, where the shabu was being stocked before distribution, while Villaran acted as a courier.
Based on information they received, he said the instruction for distribution of illegal drugs reportedly comes from high profile detainees, and is carried out by their accomplices outside jail.
While the two arrested siblings have no criminal records, Darroca said they are disposing a large volume of shabu.
PNP chief Rodolfo Azurin lauded the series of anti-drug accomplishments of the Silay City police and RDEU 6 in Negros Occidental.
“The PNP is working double-time to stop the proliferation of illegal drugs in every region across the country, as we continue to intensified our anti-illegal drugs operations,” Azurin said in a statement issued by the PNP Public Information Office.*
