Taguig police arrest drug pushers, users

The Taguig police have apprehended at least seven suspects accused of selling and using shabu on separate operations this week.

On Wednesday evening, six individuals, one of them a suspected drug pusher, were caught by operatives of the Station Anti-Illegal Drugs-Special Operation Task Group (SAID-SOTG) during a pot session along B.P. Cruz Street, Purok 5 in Barangay Lower Bicutan.

In his report to Taguig police chief Superintendent Alfred Sotto Corpus, Chief Inspector Porfirio Calagan said his unit received information from an access agent that regular pot sessions occur every night at a vacant lot and an abandoned house in the area. A SAID-SOTG team was immediately dispatched to conduct a raid in the area, where the suspects were caught in the act during their pot session.

Arrested were: Jojit Ingco, 27, jobless; Jessie Gido, 48, a barangay tanod; Julius Andaya, 38, a construction worker; Sunday Olis, 51, a seaman; Gerry Adan, 37, jobless; and Reagan Maramba, 24, a student and a suspected drug pusher. All are residents of Barangay Lower Bicutan.

Calagan said a number of other participants in the illegal activity escaped and eluded arrest. Recovered from the crime scene were assorted drug paraphernalia such as plastic sachets and aluminum foils with shabu residue.

Additionally, a notorious drug offender was arrested during an anti-drug operation in Barangay Hagonoy, on Tuesday afternoon. At about 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, members of the SAID-SOTG caught Delfin Franco Jr., 58, near his residence at 238 M. L. Quezon Street, Barangay Hagonoy. Franco has a pending warrant of arrest for other drug related offenses.

Calagan said appropriate charges have already been filed against all suspects.