MPD accuser nabbed in drug buy-bust

A suspected drug pusher who caused the relief of 11 Manila police officials last year has been arrested in a buy-bust operation in Malate, Manila last Wednesday.

Carol Guillen, alias Mila, 25, of Green Meadows, Quezon City, has been tagged as responsible for the proliferation of shabu in Sta. Ana, Manila.

Operatives of Manila Police District’s anti illegal drugs unit arrested Guillen after an undercover officer was able to buy from her P1,000 worth of shabu along Osmeña Highway near Pablo Ocampo street in Malate.

Seized from her were two sachets of shabu and the marked money.

It will be recalled that Guillen caused the relief of 11 Manila police officers, including Superintendent Marcelino Pedrozo Jr., then the chief of Malate police station.

During her arrest last Jan. 31, 2005 on drug charges, Guillen denied she was a drug pusher and claimed she was abducted by Martin Soriano, a former agent of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), in connivance with Manila policemen. She also said she was only released by Soriano from custody after her family coughed up an Isuzu Crosswind and $1,600.

When Soriano was arrested, he implicated Pedrozo and 10 of his men in his alleged kidnapping activities. Pedrozo, however, denied Soriano’s allegations, saying the police ties with Soriano is only as an informant who furnished police with list of big-time drug dealers.

After a year of proving their innocence, the 11 policemen were cleared of the charges of kidnapping by the legal panel of the Philippine National Police.

Pedrozo subsequently assumed his former post. He is now the chief of the MPD’s General Assignment Section.

When reached for comment, Pedrozo said the arrest of Guillen only proves that the allegations that she is a drug pusher are true. "Now it is finally coming out that her arrest last year is legal, and there are no truth to the allegations that the 11 Manila policemen conspired with Soriano in her alleged kidnapping."