• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
Policemen have confiscated six kilos of suspected shabu with a market value of P41.3 million, from a suspected drug peddler on Tuesday night at Purok Malipayon in Barangay 35, Bacolod City.
It was considered as the biggest haul of illegal drugs by the Philippine National Police in Negros Occidental, this year, and takes place two weeks after PCol. Joeresty Coronica assumed the position as director of the Bacolod City Police Office.
Nabbed during the joint buy bust operation of Police Station 1 and the Regional Drug Enforcement Unit 6 was John Philip Dellomo, alias Tol, 28, who has previously been jailed at the New Bilibid Prison for robbery, according to Coronica.
Dellomo’s father, Lauro, 52, and brother, Ronel, 36, were also taken into custody by the police, for allegedly trying to interfere with the job of the police.
Both were subdued after they allegedly tried to grab the firearms of the police raiding team.
In a statement, PBrig. Gen. Jack Wanky, regional police director of Western Visayas, lauded the BCPO Station and RDEU 6 unit for a job well done, and ordered them also to exert effort in identifying their cohorts.
“If there is and if evidence warrants, subject them to follow-up police operations to hold them accountable of their illegal acts,” Wanky ordered the BCPO.
During the weekend, operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and local police also confiscated more than half a kilo of suspected shabu, with a market value of P3.7 million, from four drug suspects, including two ex-convicts and two members of a local drug group, in Brgys. Singcang-Airport and Tangub, respectively, also in Bacolod City.
Separate buy bust operations in cities of San Carlos, Silay, and Sagay, as well as in E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental, on Tuesday, also led to the confiscation of 24 grams of suspected shabu with a market value of P162,600, from five more arrested drug peddlers, police records showed.*
