• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
The police seized P15.7 million worth of illegal drugs in 24 hours of anti-drug operations in Western Visayas, among which P6.9 million was recovered in Bacolod City.
The arrest of nine drug suspects by the Bacolod City Police Office, Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office, Iloilo City Police Office and Aklan Police Provincial Office yielded 2.3 kilos of suspected shabu with a market value of P15,767,840, covering the period of 6 a.m. of October 17 to 5:59 a.m. of Oct. 18.
The apprehension of Darrel Demafilez, alias Mar Mar, during a buy bust operation on Oct. 17 yielded an estimated kilo of suspected shabu with a market value of P6,800,000.
A follow up anti-drug operation on Friday by CDEU and Police Station 10 operatives led to the arrest of another drug suspect identified by the police as Jose Yulo at Purok Chereza 2 in Barangay 27, Bacolod City.
The apprehension of Yulo, a carpenter, yielded 25 grams of suspected shabu with a market value of P170,000.
Of the nine arrested drug suspects, three were tagged by the police as High Value Individual drug personalities, while the six others were categorized as street level individual drug personalities.
The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office arrested three drug suspects and recovered P37,400 worth of suspected shabu, while the Iloilo City Police Office seized P8.7 million worth of illegal drugs from two suspected drug peddlers, and the Aklan PPO contributed to the PRO 6 accomplishments by arresting a drug suspect and recovered P6,800 worth of shabu.
In a statement, PBrig. Jack Wanky, regional police director of Western Visayas, lauded BCPO for their series of successful anti drug operations, which further prevents the proliferation of illegal drugs in Bacolod City, despite their being busy in securing the ongoing MassKara Festival.
“May these arrests serve as a warning to those individuals still engaging in the illegal drug activity to cease. If not, surely the long arm of the law will catch you soonest,” Wanky said.*