CEBU, Philippines - Vedasto Jubahid Corsiga alias “Estong”, alleged dealer of cocaine here in Cebu, admitted engaging in the illegal activity in order to earn money to help find the robber who killed his son in barangay Sta. Cruz, Cebu City last year.
His son, Vedasto Jr., was killed while his younger son, Herbert, was injured when three men shot at them after they refused to give their cash and belongings to holduppers who victimized them in September along Arlington Pond in Sta. Cruz.
“Ang aho lang unta ‘to nga makakwarta kay ahong pangitaon ang nagpusil patay sa ahong anak,” Corsiga, a native of Tubigon, Bohol, said in tears yesterday.
Corsiga, who worked as a family driver in Bohol, told reporters that he only served as a middleman last Monday because a certain “Banban” had already negotiated for the said transaction.
The suspect was arrested through a buy-bust operation jointly conducted by the Regional Intelligence Division of the Police Regional Office-7 and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the vicinity of a fast-food chain in Barangay Capitol Site Monday afternoon.
Twelve sachets containing cocaine powder weighing 42 grams were seized from his possession.
He is now detained at the PDEA-7 cell and charged with violation of Republic Act 9165 Section 5 or the “sale, trading, administration, dispensation, delivery, distribution and transportation of dangerous drugs and/or controlled precursors and essential chemicals which is a non-bailable offense and carries with it life imprisonment.”
Chief Supt. Lani-O Nerez, PRO-7 director, said that Vedasto’s reason is not an excuse to do the crime because the act still violated the law. He disclosed that this is the biggest amount of cocaine they hauled in Cebu so far.
Nerez said that after receiving information from a concerned citizen regarding the illegal drugs trade carried out by Vedasto, they placed him under surveillance since January. — Gabriel C. Bonjoc, Niña G. Sumacot and Johanna T. Natavio/MEEV (FREEMAN NEWS)