Ex Cop, Ex Jail Guard Busted in Ramos, Tarlac

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A former policeman and an ex-jail guard of the Tarlac Provincial Jail (TPJ) were arrested in a separate buy-bust operation by the police.

According to PInps Randy Niegos, police chief of Ramos town, arrested for peddling shabu was Joseph Ayson y Valencia, 44, an ex- policeman, presently residing at Sitio Bancag, Barangay Poblacion South, Ramos, Tarlac, but a native of Poblacion 2, Pura, Tarlac.

Ayson, who was formerly assigned at the Pura Police Station, was nabbed at Barangay Poblacion South, here. Five sachets of shabu were confiscated from him.

Ayson was dismissed from the police service in 2008.

“Only just recently that we heard of Ayson’s illegal activities and we conducted a ‘test buy’ which confirmed of his selling drugs. Hence, we immediately planned and executed an entrapment against him”, Niegos disclosed.

While in Tarlac City, PInsp Wilhelmino Alcantara, head of this city’s Drug Enforcement Unit, disclosed the arrest of Nelson Pineda y Tañedo, 43, former jail guard at the Tarlac Provincial Jail and a resident of Homesite, Barangay San Rafael.

Pineda was apprehended at his residence when he sold a sachet of shabu to a policeman poseur buyer. Two “large” sachets of shabu were recovered from Ayson.

The arrest of Pineda and Ayson came on the heels of the Tarlac Police Provincial Director PSSupt Ritchie Posadas’ order for a “One-Time-Big-Time” operations against illegal drugs.

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