5 drug offenders nabbed in Caloocan City

Anti-narcotics policemen arrested five alleged drug users in a series of operations Friday in Caloocan City.

Suspects Jocelyn Ramos, 46, a resident of 58 Tanigue st., Dagat-Dagatan, Caloocan City; Rafael Frias, 24, of Block 15, Lot 37, Phase 2, Area 3, also in Dagat-Dagatan; Gina Arceo, 34, of Block 32, Lot 92, Sabalo st., Dagat-Dagatan; and Roland Melgar, also of Dagat-Dagatan, were reportedly caught in the act of sniffing shabu at around 5 p.m.

Station Anti-Illegal Drugs-Special Operations Unit (SAID-SOU) agents conducted a surveillance operation on Tanigue st. in Dagat-Dagatan after they were informed that alleged drug users were having a shabu session inside a house in the area.

The cops chanced upon the suspects while in the act of sniffing shabu inside Ramos’ house, prober PO2 Randulfo Hipolito said.

Hipolito said that police agents seized from the suspects an empty plastic sachet with traces of shabu, two lighters, a shabu-laced aluminum foil and an improvised tooter.

The suspects, all jobless, were charged for violations of the anti-illegal drugs law.

In an earlier operation in a squatters’ colony in Heroes del ’96, DM Compound, Barangay 73, also in Caloocan City, the SAID-SOU agents nabbed another alleged drug user identified as Angelito Azarcon.

Azarcon, 25, also jobless, yielded shabu sniffing paraphernalia.

Despite police efforts to fight illegal drugs, the menace remains Camanava (Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas, Valenzuela).

Sources said that with the termination of illegal gambling operations, the number of drug peddlers could rise as they are expected to shift to another easy source of income.