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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...