Buratong drug gang member falls in Pasig

MANILA, Philippines - The Pasig City Police has arrested a suspected member of the disbanded “Boratong” drug syndicate, an official announced Friday.

Eastern Police District director, Chief Superintendent Miguel Laurel, identified the suspect as 41-year-old Alvin Quijano, a resident of MH de Pilar Street, Barangay Palatiw, Pasig City.

Quijano was arrested by virtue of an arrest warrant for illegal possession of firearms and ammunition issued by Manila Regional Trial Court Judge Ma. Theresa Dolores Gomez-Estoesta at his house in Barangay Palatiw.

Seized from Quijano were a caliber .45 MK IV Colt pistol, two M16 carbine rifles, ammunition for an M16 rifle and a caliber .45 pistol, and three sealed plastic sachets containing suspected shabu.

Laurel said Quijano’s arrest was the product of a long surveillance and intelligence gathering on the suspect.

According to Laurel, after the arrest and conviction in 2009 of the gang’s leader, Amin Imam Boratong, members of the gang have not stopped in their drug peddling activities.

Last March 10, three other suspected members of the “Boratong Gang” identified as Aleman Boratong, Acsaimen Amer and Joey Mamon, were nabbed by the Pasig City Police at the Mapayapa Compound in Barangay Sto. Tomas, Pasig. Seized from the suspects were assorted high-powered guns, including an AK-47 rifle.

On July 2009, Boratong and his second-wife Sheryl Molera-Boratong were convicted by the Pasig Regional Trial Court and were sentenced to life imprisonment for owning and maintaining the infamous “shabu tiangge" inside the Mapayapa compound in the city.