Tarlac drug lord eyed in ex- Narcom chief’s slay

CAMP MAKABULOS, Tarlac – Police are now eyeing the possibility that the arrested suspected leader of the province’s biggest drug syndicate is also behind the July 24 assassination of Tarlac’s former anti-narcotics chief.

Police provincial intelligence chief Superintendent Amador Corpus said that the three blue-covered notebooks recovered from the raid on the house of alleged big-time drug dealer, Hernan Gomez, which reportedly contains the monetary transactions for prohibited substances, could lead to a breakthrough in the killing of former police Inspector Joselito Dominguez.

Dominguez, 44, married, and a resident of the Aquino Subdivision in Tarlac City, was slain by two still unidentified gunmen while he was driving his motorcycle inside the posh San Sebastian Village.

The ex-policeman formerly headed the local office of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) here and later became the province’s narcotics command (Narcom).

Dominguez was, however, dismissed from the police service after he was found to be addicted to prohibited substances such as shabu.

He reportedly later became a drug pusher, and has been included in the police’s anti-illegal drugs list.

Gomez, 43, on the other hand, was nabbed last Wednesday in separate raids in Barangay Matatalaib and San Sebastian Village.

Corpus said that one of the notebooks had several pages showing the orders and payments made by one who had the initials L.D.

It also showed L.D.’s arrears in payments for his alleged shabu orders from Gomez amounted to hundreds of thousands of pesos.

Corpus said that intelligence operatives suspect that L.D. is Lito Dominguez.

Lito is the slain former policeman’s known nickname.

Authorities then suspected that Dominguez was killed due to a "deal gone sour" with the province’s drug suppliers.