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ADVERTISEMENT The war on drugs continue. By: Central Luzon News Center | Nelson Bolos In another successful simultaneous anti-drugs operation by the Tarlac Police Provincial Office (TPPO), 14 suspected pushers were arrested and 2 others were killed in a shoot-out from whom a total of 31 sachets of shabu and marijuana and 2 guns were seized. The one-day province-wide operation was led by TPPO Director PSSupt Ritchie Medardo Posadas and is part of the police’s Oplan Double Barrel Reloaded. Posadas said, “we were not expecting a shoot-out, but 2 of the targeted drug personalities refused to surrender and shot our policemen, hence, they were killed”. The armed encounter happened in Barangay San Fernando, Victoria town, between the joint operatives of the Provincial Intelligence Branch (PIB) headed by PSupt Luis Ventura Jr and the Victoria Police Station and the 2 drug peddlers. According to PIB chief, the 2 slain suspected drug peddlers categorized as Death in Police Operation (DIPO) wer...

ADVERTISEMENT 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...

ADVERTISEMENT HE IS READY TO KILL By: Central Luzon News Center | Nelson Bolos Paniqui, Tarlac - Thus, said PSupt Joel Mendoza as he described the killing of a drug pusher in Barangay Abogado. In his report to Tarlac Police Director PSSupt Ritchie Posadas, Mendoza identified the slain “top drug personality” as Richard Fernandez (AKA Reggie), 38. “Pag-abot niya (Fernandez) ng shabu at dadakmain na sana siya ng poseur buyer, binaril niya agad ito. Buti na lang naka-ilag ang pulis ko. ”, said Mendoza, this town’s police chief. Fernandez is listed among this town’s Top 10 Drug Personalities. A source said Fernandez went into hiding for months when the “intensified anti-illegal drugs operation was launched” but recently returned here and continued his selling of shabu and marijuana. Mendoza said the entrapment happened right inside the house of Fernandez. The police of this town hugged the news recently when an Aglipayan priest belonging to a faction of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente ...

ADVERTISEMENT P artners in crime for more than 10 years. By: Central Luzon News Center | Nelson Bolos This was revealed by 2 cousins who were arrested selling shabu at their residence at Barangay Poblacion Sur last Monday. In the report of PSupt Joel Mendoza to Tarlac Police Provincial Director PSSupt Ritchie Posadas, apprehended were Reynold Roldan y Balmores, AKA Balweg, 31, and Ronald Balmores y Balmores, 39, when they sold shabu to policeman poseur buyer PO3 Joel Ian Agbanlog Jr. The older Balmores admitted that the 2 of them have been into drugs for more than 10 years. He said they resort to selling “bato” to support their vice. “Matigas ang magpinsan, ayaw sabihin ang source nila. Kaya ang conclusion, ‘pag lumaya sila itutuloy pa rin nila ang pagbebenta ng droga”, said Mendoza. Mendoza also revealed that both Ronald and Reynold are on the Municipal Watchlist of Drug Personalities. The 2 were charged of violation of Sections 5 (selling of illegal drugs) and 11 (possession of il...

ADVERTISEMENT Drug addicts are liars. By: Central Luzon News Center | Nelson Bolos This came when the Bishop of Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) declared that arrested “Aglipayan church priest" Randy Valdez is not a member of the IFI. Valdez, along with 2 others (Camille Franilla and Mike Raven Quinto), were arrested last Saturday in a buy bust operation by this town’s police led by PSupt Joel Mendoza. In an interview upon his arrest, Valdez, who he is a native of this town, claimed he is a priest of the Aglipayan church and is the “destined priest” of the IFI church in the municipality of Cuyapo, Nueva Ecija. However, Bishop Dindo Ranojo, Diocesan Bishop of IFI Diocese of Tarlac, said, “Randy is not and has never been a member of IFI. Before I became a Bishop, I have worked in our national office and I did not encounter his name”. “I do not even know if he is really a priest. He did not study at our schools”, added Ranojo. The news on Valdez’s apprehension, “Priest, 2 other...

ADVERTISEMENT An addict priest? By: Central Luzon News Center | Nelson Bolos This came as a priest, along with 2 others, were arrested in a buy bust operation at Barangay Poblacion Norte in Paniqui, Tarlac. In his report, PSupt Joel Mendoza identified those arrested as Randy Valdez, 35, of District 1, Cuyapo, Nueva Ecija, Mike Raven Quinto y Puyaoan, 20, of Barangay Poblacion Sur, and Camille Franilla, 23, of Barangay Poblacion Norte, here. Valdez, who is a native of this town, is the destined priest of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI), more commonly known as the Aglipayan Church, in Cuyapo town. “When we accosted Valdez along with the 2 other suspects, I thought he (Valdez) was joking, or either high on drugs, when he introduced himself as a priest. But it turned out to be true, he is a priest of the Aglipayan church ”, Mendoza said. Mendoza also said, “the target of our entrapment were Camille (Franilla) and Quinto who are both on our Municipal Watchlist of Drug Personaliti...

ADVERTISEMENT Are drug peddlers invading this town? By: Central Luzon News Center | Nelson Bolos This came about as 3 drug pusher were arrested while 1 of their kind was killed in an armed encounter on 4 separate entrapment operations here this week. Slain in a shoot- out with the police this morning was Omar Ugadan of Barangay Tibag, Tarlac. Ugadan, a known drug personality who “surrendered” to the city police during the advent of the PNP Project Tokhang, but, apparently, continued peddling drugs. In his reports, PSupt Franklin Estoro revealed that last Wednesday, Jayson Lansang y Nuñez, 37, years old, married, of 3029, Abucay Street, Tondo, Manila, was entrapped in Barangay San Antonio. Lansang, who yielded 4 sachets of shabu, “was arrested along with his co-hort Chiaro Crisanto Catu y De Guzman, 26, who was caught in possession of the mark money and another sachet of drugs”. In his report to Tarlac Police Provincial Director PSSupt Ritchie Medardo Posadas, Estoro also disclosed Yes...

ADVERTISEMENT Concepcion, Tarlac - - “Walang sino-sino pagdating sa droga” ~ Central Luzon News Center ~ Thus, said mayor Andy Lacson on the arrest of 2 municipal employees here yesterday by the local police led by PSupt Luis Ventura Jr. In his report to Tarlac Police Provincial Director PSSupt Ritchie Posadas, Ventura identified the arrested municipal employees in a separate buy bust operations as Abel Datu, 50, of Barangay San Nicolas Pobalcion, and Armando Pamintuan, 51, of Barangay Green Village who was entrapped along with 40-year old Mary Ann Pamintuan in their barangay. Datu is a contractual street sweeper while Pamintuan works as a permanent utility personnel. Being both employees of the municipal government, they are classified as “newly discovered High Value Targets (HVT)” said Ventura who assumed as police chief of this town last March 28. In an interview, Lacson revealed that, “since Col. Ventura became our police chief I ordered him to arrest all persons involved in illeg...

ADVERTISEMENT Are drug peddlers migrating? By: Central Luzon News Center | Nelson Bolos This was the question posed after a “new big time pusher” was killed here in an armed encounter with the police at Barangay Tagumbao in Gerona, Tarlac. In his report, PSupt Franklin Estoro identified the slain pusher as Rodelio Sabalo y Unat, 34, who is said to be new resident of Barangay Camangaan East, Moncada town. Recovered from Sabalo were a caliber .9MM pistol , 16 sachets of shabu, a Honda TMX 155 motorcycle, among others. According to PInsp Joel Gamboa, Sabalo sold 2 sachets of shabu to police poseur buyer PO2 Archie Niegos but resisted arrest and fired at the apprehending police team. He was killed in the ensuing firefight with the policemen. “From the looks of it (Sabalo’s killing), he is prepared to fight the police. He immediately drew his gun when he was about to be arrested and fired at my men”, said Estoro. “Nahuli na naming lahat ang mga known pushers na taga-Gerona), pero may mga b...